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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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Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.
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If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.
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I am not an accomplished lawyer.
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Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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Our political problem now is, Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?
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In my entire life I have only met four perfect people... and I disliked them all.
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I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
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A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability.
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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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I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling.
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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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A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.
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You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
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I belive that people should fight for what they believe and only what they believe.
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We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.
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The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.
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If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.
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