Quote by Abraham Lincoln
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a mans

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a mans character, give him power. – Abraham Lincoln

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With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nations wounds. – Abraham Lincoln

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God
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. – Abraham Lincoln

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History
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Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. – Theodore Roosevelt

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It doesnt take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle. – Norman Schwarzkopf

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Men

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Men

Mens arguments often prove nothing but their wishes. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Men

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I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didnt really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up. – Johnny Depp

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At a time when nobody thought wed ever see a new steel mill built in America, we took a chance and built one in a corn field in Indiana. Today Steel Dynamics is one of the largest steel producers in the United States. – Mitt Romney

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Time

I couldnt wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again. – Ben Hogan

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Here is what we know after more than a decade of Republican rule: Texas works. Even The New York Times let it slip into its pages that, Texas is the future. – Rick Perry

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Future