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Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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The enthusiastic uprising of the people in our cause, is our great reliance and we can not safely give it any check, even thoughit overflows, and runs in channels not laid down in any chart.
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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.
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The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil.
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You think slavery is right and ought to be extended while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.
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I believe the Bible is the best gift God ever gave to man. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through that book. On a personal spiritual note, Lincoln confessed, I have been driven many times to my knees with the overwhelming conviction, that I had nowhere else to go.
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While I have often said that all men out to be free, yet I would allow those colored persons to be slaves who want to be and next to them those white persons who argue in favor of making other people slaves. I am in favor of giving an opportunity to such white men to try it on for themselves.
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Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.
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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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Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her
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You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.
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All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
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The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision.
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It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives.
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It is a pleasure to be able to quote lines to fit any occasion.
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I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.
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I destroy my enemy if I make him my friend.
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It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And, when they do, they will as naturally seek the gratification of their ruling passion, as others have so done before them.
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Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.
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