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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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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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Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.
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If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.
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I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.
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I destroy my enemy if I make him my friend.
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Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her
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Writing is the great invention of the world.
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Let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving.
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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
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I think I stand where that man stands.
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If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die.
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All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible.
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
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No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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An allusion has been made to the Homestead Law. I think it worthy of consideration, and that the wild lands of the country should be distributed so that every man should have the means and opportunity of benefitting his condition.
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I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.
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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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If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything.
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