#ai

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth. ↗

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#agreed #definition #destroyer #drives #him

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#did #die #fearful #i #laugh

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#affairs #conduct #desire #down #earth

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#best #flower #grow #i #i always

The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#britain #created #declaration #effecting #equal

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#nothing #public #public sentiment #sentiment #succeed

If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#calling #dog #five #how #leg

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#fail #nothing #public #public sentiment #sentiment

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time." ↗