Quote by Abraham Lincoln
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, its best to let him run. – Abraham Lincoln

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Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors. – Abraham Lincoln

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What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried? – Abraham Lincoln

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The things I want to know are in books my best friend is the man wholl get me a book I aint read. – Abraham Lincoln

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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages. – James Madison

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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times. – Friedrich Schiller

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The wildest colts make the best horses. – Plutarch

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A lot of women these days, a lot of young women dont want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous girl power sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think its a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion. – Ani DiFranco

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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. – Henrik Ibsen

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No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a mortal sin subject to damnation. – James McGreevey

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Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak and at last some crisis shows what we have become. – Brooke Foss Westcott

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If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. – Thomas Fuller

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