America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln 

Nước Mỹ sẽ không bị hủy hoại từ bên ngoài. Nếu chúng ta thoái chí và đánh mất sự tự do của chúng ta, chính chúng ta hủy hoại nó.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln 

Tốt hơn nên giữ sự im lặng  và bị cho là người khờ dại còn hơn nói thẳng và xóa bỏ tất cả hoài nghi.

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

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
Abraham Lincoln 

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln 


In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln 

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln 

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Abraham Lincoln 

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Abraham Lincoln 

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln 

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
Abraham Lincoln 

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Abraham Lincoln 

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
Abraham Lincoln 

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
Abraham Lincoln 

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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 live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
Abraham Lincoln 

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
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 am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Abraham Lincoln 

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln 

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham Lincoln 

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham Lincoln 

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham Lincoln 

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Abraham Lincoln 

A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Abraham Lincoln 


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