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It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.

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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The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.
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Some day I shall be President.
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you can't escape tomorrow's responsibilities by evading it today
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When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical if there is nothing wrong in the institution but if you admit that it is wrong, he cannot logically say that anybody has a right to do wrong.
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War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.
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I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag.
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If we have no friends, we have no pleasure and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.
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Violence begins where knowledge ends.
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A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.
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On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.
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The time has come when I am for everybody fighting the rebels. Let Indians fight them let the Negroes fight them and if you have got any strong-legged jackasses in Iwoa that can kick rebels to death, they have my hearty consent.
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All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible.
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When I left Springfield [to become President] I asked the people to pray for me. I was not a Christian. When I buried my son, the severest trial of my life, I was not a Christian. But when I went to Gettysburg and saw the graves of thousands of our soldiers, I then and there consecrated myself to Christ.
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I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.
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