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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
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Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts.
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Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)
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A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
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When you make it to the top, turn and reach down for the person behind you.
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In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.
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Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.
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There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.
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It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.
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We can succeed only by concert. It is not 'can any of us imagine better?, but 'can we all do better?
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The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
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We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.
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Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed
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Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
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Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.
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Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human nature. It still will be the abundance of man's heart, that slavery extension is wrong and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.
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The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth.
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The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.
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I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
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If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.
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