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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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[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.
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...Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man-this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore they must be placed in and inferior position...Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal.
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I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main matterfor that I have determined for myself.
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Writing is the great invention of the world.
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If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.
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If i get 8 hours to cut a tree i'll spend 7 hours to sharp my knife.
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The blessing always comes back to the door of the author.
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Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.
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Anybody will do for you, but not for me.
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If elected I shall be thankful if not, it will be all the same.
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Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
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Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a personal friend of mine, wouldtell him that you have reason to believe he is mistaken.
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You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!
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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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The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
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I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.
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I want in all cases to do right.
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