Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

Quote by Abraham Lincoln

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Our strife pertains to ourselves - to the passing generations of men; and it can...

Our strife pertains to ourselves - to the passing generations of men; and it can...

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...

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

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

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 way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way...

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way...

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...

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...

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

Public opinion in this country is everything.

Public opinion in this country is everything.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people...

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people...

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the Offended power, to confess our national...

It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the Offended power, to confess our national...

Military glory - that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood

Military glory - that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me...

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me...

Determine the thing that can and shall be done, and then we shall find the...

Determine the thing that can and shall be done, and then we shall find the...

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the...

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the...

Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this...

Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this...

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

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

Tact is the unsaid part of what you think; it's opposite, the unthought part of...

Tact is the unsaid part of what you think; it's opposite, the unthought part of...

Without tact you can learn nothing.

Without tact you can learn nothing.