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Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

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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The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.
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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
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No State, upon it own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally nothing. I therefore consider that the Union is unbroken. There needs to be no bloodshed or violence and there shall be none, unless forced upon the national authority.
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It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.
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Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privileges and positions. The present moment finds me at the White House, yet there is as good a chance for your children as there was for my father's.
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Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
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I destroy my enemy if I make him my friend.
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A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.
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I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence, I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.
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Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated.
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
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I am absent altogether too much to be a suitable instructor for a law-student. When a man has reached the age that Mr. Widner has,and has already been doing for himself, my judgment is, that he reads the books for himself without an instructor. That is precisely the way I came to the law.
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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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It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.
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Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief. Once relieved, its form of government is saved to the world its beloved history, and cherished memories, are vindicated and its happy future fully assured, and rendered inconceivably grand.
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You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
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His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.
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I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.
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