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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)
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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Singular indeed the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise the voice of complaint.
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Woe unto the world because of offenses for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.
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I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.
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If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die.
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I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me.
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No State, upon it own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally nothing. I therefore consider that the Union is unbroken. There needs to be no bloodshed or violence and there shall be none, unless forced upon the national authority.
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The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
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Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.
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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
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So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
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Both parties deprecated war but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.
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I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.
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Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.
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Relying, as I do, upon the Almighty Power, and encouraged as I am by these resolutions which you have just read, with the support which I receive from Christian men, I shall not hesitate to use all the means at my control to secure the termination of this rebellion, and will hope for success.
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I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.
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If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are if you do not intend to go to work, you can not get along anywhere.
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Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.
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