Abraham Lincoln
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

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

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

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

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.