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

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

In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.

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.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

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

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.

Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world.

Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.

The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and force a new one that suits them better.

Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

He who molds the public sentiment ... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.

In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free,--honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.

Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated.

Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.