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The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
Abraham Lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.'
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Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
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Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever-it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself.
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I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.
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Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.
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The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
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I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet.
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If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this.
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Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.
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