"When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."
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“When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.”
“I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone.”
“No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.”
More on Leadership
“You know better than I that in a Republic talent is always suspect. A man attains an elevated position only when his mediocrity prevents him from being a threat to others. And for this reason a democracy is never governed by the most competent, but rather by those whose insignificance will not jeopardize anyone else's self-esteem.”
“To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.”
“He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act”
More on Friendship
“One of my best moves is to surround myself with friends who, instead of asking, 'Why?' are quick to say, 'Why not?' That attitude is contagious.”
“Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.”
“Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.”