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When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.
- Abraham Lincoln

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
- Abraham Lincoln

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
- Abraham Lincoln

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
- Abraham Lincoln

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
- Abraham Lincoln

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.
- Abraham Lincoln