All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Quote by Abraham Lincoln

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Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.

Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever...

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever...

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep...

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep...

He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when sentence...

He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when sentence...

It is my ambition and desire to so administer the affairs of the government while...

It is my ambition and desire to so administer the affairs of the government while...

If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No,...

If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No,...

I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.

I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the...

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the...

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government...

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government...

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms,...

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms,...

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new...

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new...

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to...

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to...

As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured...

As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured...

Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

I can not deny that all may be swept away. Broken by it, I, too,...

I can not deny that all may be swept away. Broken by it, I, too,...

Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores...

Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores...

I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without...

I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without...

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruption.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruption.