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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

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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I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.
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Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, . . . nor of torture to extort confessions.
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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
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The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
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Man is not the only animal who labors but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.
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I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
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I will either be America's greatest president or its last.
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There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.
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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest in ferreting out the questions to the bottom, love to dig up the question by the roots and hold it up and dry it before the fires of the mind.
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You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live.
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We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.
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Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?
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In this troublesome world, we are never quite satisfied. When you were here, I thought you hindered me some in attending to business but now, having nothing but business---no variety---it has grown exceedingly tasteless to me. I hate to sit down and direct documents, and I hate to stay in this old room by myself.
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We live in the midst of alarms anxiety beclouds the future we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.
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I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.
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