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Abraham Lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
16Th U.S. President
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Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.
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To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.
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All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
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To read in the Bible, as the word of God himself, that In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, [] and to preach there-from that, In the sweat of other mans faces shalt thou eat bread, to my mind can scarcely be reconciled with honest sincerity.
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One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.
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The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.
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Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of another man, neither that other man nor anybody else has a right to object.
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
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Capital has its proper place and is entitled to every protection. The wages of men should be recognized in the structure of and in the social order as more important than the wages of money [interest].
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Free labor has the inspiration of hope pure slavery has no hope.
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He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel.
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And you are entirely free from head-ache? That is good -- good -- considering it is the first spring you have been free from it since we were acquainted. I am afraid you will get so well, and fat, and young, as to be wanting to marry again.
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A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands.
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But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only good thing which no man ever seeks the good of, for himself.
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The President to-night has a dream: - He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said: - He is a very common-looking man. The President replied: - The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them.
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Talk to the jury as though your client's fate depends on every word you utter.
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I think I stand where that man stands.
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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
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