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Quotes By subject - Starting with A - American Presidential Quotes
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Work: Lincoln Observed: The Civil War Dispatches of Noah Brooks edited by Michael Burlingame
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The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
Author: John F. Kennedy
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
Author: John F. Kennedy
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.
Author: John F. Kennedy
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
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For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Author: John F. Kennedy
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Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
Author: Woodrow Wilson
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A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
Author: Richard Milhous Nixon
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When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.
Author: Ronald Reagan
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