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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

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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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It is easiest to be all things to all men, but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.
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Towering genius distains a beaten path.
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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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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
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Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever-it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself.
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The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities.
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Received as I am by the members of a legislature the majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments, I trust that I may have their assistance in piloting the ship of state through this voyage, surrounded by perils as it is for if it should suffer wreck now, there will be no pilot ever needed for another voyage.
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A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.
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You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak
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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.
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I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.
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I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.
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A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the money.
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He who does something at the head of one Regiment, will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred.
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God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
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When I left Springfield [to become President] I asked the people to pray for me. I was not a Christian. When I buried my son, the severest trial of my life, I was not a Christian. But when I went to Gettysburg and saw the graves of thousands of our soldiers, I then and there consecrated myself to Christ.
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I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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Both parties deprecated war but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.
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If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.
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