Quote by Abraham Lincoln
Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents... pleaded for me

Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents… pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. – Abraham Lincoln

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Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure. – Abraham Lincoln

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War
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There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite. – Abraham Lincoln

Category:
Presidents Day
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Hypocrisy
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They are not all saints who use holy water. – English Proverb

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Hypocrisy

A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one. – J. Pierpoint Morgan

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Hypocrisy

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners — let us thank heaven for hypocrisy. – Aldous Huxley

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Hypocrisy

We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach. – Bertrand Russell

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Hypocrisy

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