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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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Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.
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I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.
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I have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me.
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An allusion has been made to the Homestead Law. I think it worthy of consideration, and that the wild lands of the country should be distributed so that every man should have the means and opportunity of benefitting his condition.
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Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated.
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You must think I am a high-priced man.... Fifteen dollars is enough for the job. I send you a receipt for fifteen dollars, and return to you a ten-dollar bill.
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I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.
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An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not distinctly and expressly affirmed in it.
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Whether you look for the good or look for the bad in a person, you'll find it. A. Lincoln
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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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Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.
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In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.
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Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ... nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us 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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Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War.
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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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Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?
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The president is the cube of ice one places in the pot of a houseplant, providing a steady amount of nourishment over the course of a hot day. A good description of the job and also a fantastic bit of practical household advice.
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Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged by ambitious and designing men, but stand fast to the Union and the old flag.
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I cannot bring myself to believe that any human being lives who would do me any harm.
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I never trusted a man who never smoked or drank.
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