If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a horse have? Four, calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg


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ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree i...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Everybody likes a compliment.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own exis...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to
succeed, but I am bound to...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire a...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is w...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelit...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safe...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
All I have learned, I learned from books.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
No man is poor who has a Godly mother.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a ca...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Achievement has no color
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Tell me what brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other gen...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The br...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I cannot imaging anyone looking at the sky and denying God.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build o...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration will be remem...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The President to-night has a dream: He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who h...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advan...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I dream of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and e...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him ru...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when the sentence was about to be p...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legi...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN