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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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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President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. Why do you try to make friends of them? asked an associate. You should try to destroy them. Am I not destroying my enemies, Lincoln gently replied, when I make them my friends?
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Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.
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Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.
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Property is the fruit of labor property is desirable it is a positive good.
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I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.
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Adversity does not make us frail it only shows us how frail we are.
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All the armies of Europe combined could not by force make a track upon the Blue Ridge, or take a drink from the Ohio. If we are to be destroyed, we must do it ourselves.
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My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I...fell in love with her and what is more, I have never fallen out.
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We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
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It's bad. It's damned bad.
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Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.
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There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.
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None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing
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Money possesses no value to the state other than that given to it by circulation.
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The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses and [Zachary] Taylor like others, found thorns within it. No human being can fill that station and escape censure.
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I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling.
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The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.
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