Abraham Lincoln
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

I do the very best I know how — the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.