How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise high with the occasion.
When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self government – that is despotism.
I have heard… that both the Army and the government needed a dictator. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask… is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.
The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
