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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 person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything.
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The Almighty has His own purposes.
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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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Capital has its proper place and is entitled to every protection. The wages of men should be recognized in the structure of and in the social order as more important than the wages of money [interest].
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Do I not damage my enemies after i make them my close friends?
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The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was not made to conceal or destroy the apple, but to adorn and preserve it. The picture was made for the apple-not the apple for the picture.
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.
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Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration
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We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.
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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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God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.
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Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?
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I am a patient man--always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance, and also to give ample time for repentance. Still, I must save this government, if possible. What I cannot do, of course I will not do, but it may as well be understood, once for all, that I shall not surrender this game leaving any available card unplayed.
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You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak
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I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination. I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing.
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I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.
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Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered.
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Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
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Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
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