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"Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets." - Abraham Lincoln

"Avoid popularity if you would have peace." - Abraham Lincoln

"As our case is new, we must think and act anew." - Abraham Lincoln

"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy." - 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

"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. " - Abraham Lincoln

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

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing." - Abraham Lincoln

"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind." - Abraham Lincoln

"All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother." - Abraham Lincoln

"A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me." - Abraham Lincoln

"A house divided against itself cannot stand." - Abraham Lincoln

"A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have." - Abraham Lincoln