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Some day I shall be President.
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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If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised by the other.
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To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.
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I could not sleep when I got on the hunt for an idea, until I had caught it. This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck with me.
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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 will either be America's greatest president or its last.
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Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert? I think that in such a cse to silence the agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional but withal a great mercy.
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As the problems are new, we must disenthrall ourselves from the past.
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I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag.
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In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong as silly and as wise asbad and good.
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Too big to cry too young to laugh.
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