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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
16Th U.S. President
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I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do or not do any particular thing, He finds a way of letting me know it
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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel.
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Your rights end where my nose begins.
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For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life and while all contribute of their substance the soldier puts his life at stake, and often yields it up in his country's cause. The highest merit, then is due to the soldier.
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There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.
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The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil.
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Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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A man's legs must be long enough to reach the ground.
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When the white man governs himself, that is self-government but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism.
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In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free. I insist that they found the institution of slavery existing here. They did not make it so, but they left it so because they knew of no way to get rid of it at that time.
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Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.
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The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization. The liquor seller is simply and only a privileged malefactor - a criminal.
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Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.
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Did Stanton say I was a damned fool? Then I dare say I must be one, for Stanton is generally right and he always says what he means.
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Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
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I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.
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