Abraham Lincoln

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

Economics • Justice • Politics

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

Conflict • Forgiveness • Friendship

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.

Empowerment • Improvement • Independence

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

Constitution • Government • Politics

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Motivational

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.

Freedom • Government • Patriotism

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

Family • Gratitude • Influence

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

Happiness • Religion • Resilience

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Family • Religion

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.

Beliefs • Communication • Crisis

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

Hope • Idealism • Nation

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

Faith • Justice • Morality

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

Improvement • Motivational • Personal Development

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

Animals • Religion

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Hope • Motivational • Optimism

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

Government • Leadership • Politics

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

Equality • Freedom • Human

You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.

Behavior • Character • Personality

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Improvement • Motivational • Personal Development