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The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.
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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Received as I am by the members of a legislature the majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments, I trust that I may have their assistance in piloting the ship of state through this voyage, surrounded by perils as it is for if it should suffer wreck now, there will be no pilot ever needed for another voyage.
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Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
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You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time.
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That I am not a member of any Christian Church, is true but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures and I have never spoken with intentional disrepect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.
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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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A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.
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Property is the fruit of labor property is desirable it is a positive good.
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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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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
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Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.
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I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
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