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Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.
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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I freely acknowledge myself the servant of the people, according to the bond of service - the United States Constitution and that, as such, I am responsible to them.
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I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag.
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Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged by ambitious and designing men, but stand fast to the Union and the old flag.
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I can hardly believe that the South and North can live in peace, unless we can get rid of the negroes ... I believe that it would be better to export them all to some fertile country with a good climate, which they could have to themselves.
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To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.
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We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.
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Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.
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Don't be fooled. I kept all my workout clothes in that top hat.
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Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.
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If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.
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Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
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I will either be America's greatest president or its last.
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I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army.
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