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.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

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.

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.

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

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

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

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.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.