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Abraham Lincoln

April 17, 2006
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Abraham Lincoln

May 19, 2006
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Abraham Lincoln

July 22, 2006
Gettysburgh Address: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Abraham Lincoln

September 24, 2006
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make them my friends?

Abraham Lincoln

September 24, 2006
We are not enemies, but friends.
We must not be enemies.
Though passion may have strained
it must not break our bonds of affection.
The mystic chords of memory,
stretching from every battlefield and
patriot grave to every living heart
and hearthstone all over this broad land,
will yet swell the chorus of the Union,
when again touched, as surely they will be,
by the better angels of our nature.

Abraham Lincoln

January 9, 2007
The life of an ant is as dear to it as ours is to us

Abraham Lincoln

January 9, 2007
The life of an ant is as dear to it as ours is to us
from the Reader's Digest
quoted by Jenny Ko Gyi (Myanmar - Burma)

Abraham Lincoln

February 27, 2007

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

May 7, 2007
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.

Abraham Lincoln

January 6, 2008
God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

Abraham Lincoln

November 22, 2009
Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you and in the end you are sure to succeed.