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I never had a policy I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

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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Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.
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When you make it to the top, turn and reach down for the person behind you.
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We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.
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I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.
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If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this.
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And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.
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What are you gonna do for a face when the baboon wants his ass back?
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If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two good thoughts
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My father taught me to work he did not teach me to love it.
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If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
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Elections belong to the people. It's their decision.
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Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.
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The best way to get rid of your enemies is to make them your friends.
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You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven you may drag my soul down to the regions of darkness and despair to be tormented forever but you will never get me to support a measure which I believe to be wrong, although by doing so I may accomplish that which I believe to be right.
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I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything.
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I hold the value of life is to improve one's condition. Whatever is calculated to advance the condition of the honest, struggling laboring man, so far as my judgment will enable me to judge of a correct thing, I am for that thing.
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History is not history unless it is the truth.
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Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
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I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.
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