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Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1865 16th president of US (1809 - 1865)
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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

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

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.



Whatever you are, be a good one.

When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that ΄a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.΄ So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

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

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