Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.
From Abraham Lincoln
I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side.
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
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.
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
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