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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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While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for having directed my countrymen to a right conclusion, as I think, for their own good, it adds nothing to my satisfaction that any other man may be disappointed or pained by the result.
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We can not have free government without elections and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.
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If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.
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Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease.
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Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.
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Your rights end where my nose begins.
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The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
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The President to-night has a dream: - He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said: - He is a very common-looking man. The President replied: - The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them.
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I have a congenital aversion to failure.
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The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
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Relying, as I do, upon the Almighty Power, and encouraged as I am by these resolutions which you have just read, with the support which I receive from Christian men, I shall not hesitate to use all the means at my control to secure the termination of this rebellion, and will hope for success.
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Negroes, like other people, act upon motives. Why should they do anything for us, if we will do nothing for them? If they stake their lives for us, they must be prompted by the strongest motive, even the promise of freedom. And the promise being made, must be kept.
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It is much easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going.
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If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others
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The world shall know that I will keep my faith to friends and enemies, come what will.
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Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.
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I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.
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Did Stanton say I was a damned fool? Then I dare say I must be one, for Stanton is generally right and he always says what he means.
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Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.
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. . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . .
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