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We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Abraham Lincoln
Freedom, Men, Democracies Have

Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.

Abraham Lincoln
Invasion, Internals, Dies

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

Abraham Lincoln
Wisdom, Religious, Freedom

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

Abraham Lincoln
Positive, Being Happy, Uplifting

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.

Abraham Lincoln
Country, Money, Hands

Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.

Abraham Lincoln
Determination, Men, Ordinary

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln
Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.

Abraham Lincoln
Remember
Abraham Lincoln (1907). “The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator”, p.48, Library of Alexandria

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln
Funny, Life, Sarcastic
Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

Sir, 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.

Abraham Lincoln
Leadership, God, Wisdom

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

Abraham Lincoln
Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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

Abraham Lincoln
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

What are you gonna do for a face when the baboon wants his ass back?

Abraham Lincoln
Success, Want, Faces

We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!

Abraham Lincoln
Freedom, Humility, Heart
"The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln".

It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.

Abraham Lincoln
Sin, Silent, Duty

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

Abraham Lincoln
Character, People, Independence
Abraham Lincoln, Jack Stevenson (2017). “Abraham Lincoln: 100 Influential Quotes of My Life”, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

Abraham Lincoln
Libertarian Party, Liberty, Politics
Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”

Behind the cloud the sun is still shining.

Abraham Lincoln
Encouraging, Uplifting, Healing
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.191, Wildside Press LLC

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

Abraham Lincoln
Inspirational, Greatness, Men

When you make it to the top, turn and reach down for the person behind you.

Abraham Lincoln
Behind You, Turns, Persons

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Abraham Lincoln
Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic
Letter to Henry L. Pierce and Others, 6 Apr. 1859

Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.

Abraham Lincoln
Giving, Society, Capable

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.

Abraham Lincoln
Inspirational, Wisdom, Truth
Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.

Abraham Lincoln
Thinking, Generations, Election

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Abraham Lincoln
Inspirational, Basketball, Peace