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The worst thing you can do for anyone you care about is anything that they can do on their own.

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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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I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.
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If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.
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But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only good thing which no man ever seeks the good of, for himself.
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I can hardly believe that the South and North can live in peace, unless we can get rid of the negroes ... I believe that it would be better to export them all to some fertile country with a good climate, which they could have to themselves.
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Received as I am by the members of a legislature the majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments, I trust that I may have their assistance in piloting the ship of state through this voyage, surrounded by perils as it is for if it should suffer wreck now, there will be no pilot ever needed for another voyage.
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We shall meanly lose or nobly save the last hope of earth.
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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.
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I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.
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The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.
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It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards.
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I say 'try' if we never try, we shall never succeed.
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I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.
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Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.
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Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.
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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
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You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you but, no matter. Fight you, then exclusively to save the Union.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever-it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself.
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Every blade of grass is a study and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.
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Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.
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