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I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.

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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.
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The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.
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Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated.
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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.
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The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
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That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.
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There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.
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