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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

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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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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He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.
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Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains, its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it.
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If we believe the Bible, we must accept the fact that, in the old days, God and his angels came to humans in their sleep and made themselves known in dreams.
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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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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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I don't know who my grandfather was I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.
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We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
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As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.
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Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human nature. It still will be the abundance of man's heart, that slavery extension is wrong and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.
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The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.
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We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
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No man has a right to judge Andrew Johnson in any respect who has not suffered as much and done as much as he for the Nation's sake.
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My God! My God! What will the country say?
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Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.
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