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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander
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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The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.
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Let us renew our trust in god, and go forward without fear.
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Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.
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There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
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If there is a worse place than Hell, I am in it.
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
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I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
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When I got him out he was near froze solid and shivering. He was shaking so hard that I wasted half a glass of whiskey trying to aim it for his mouth. Must have got enough of it into him, though, since it did seem to bring him back to life.
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There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow.
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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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That I am not a member of any Christian Church, is true but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures and I have never spoken with intentional disrepect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.
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I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.
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I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.
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I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.
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Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.
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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
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I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.
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One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.
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