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He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
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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Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung
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I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else.
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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
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Democracy is government of, by and for the people.
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Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
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Property is the fruit of labor property is desirable it is a positive good.
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That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
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We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.
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Don't pray that God's on our side, pray that we're on his side.
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Anxiety beclouds the future.
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Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid.
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And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.
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If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.
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If it were not for my firm belief in an overruling Providence, it would be difficult for me, in the midst of such complications of affairs, to keep my reason on its seat. But I am confident that the Almighty has His plans, and will work them out and, whether we see it or not, they will be the best for us.
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I will either be America's greatest president or its last.
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You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live.
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Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
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The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
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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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