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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.

Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers.
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In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.
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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
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Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.
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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
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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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The time has come when I am for everybody fighting the rebels. Let Indians fight them let the Negroes fight them and if you have got any strong-legged jackasses in Iwoa that can kick rebels to death, they have my hearty consent.
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My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age and he grew up, literally without education.
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