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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 political horizon looks dark and lowering but the people, under Providence, will set all right.
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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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That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thence forward, and forever free.
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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander
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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.
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You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.
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Anxiety beclouds the future.
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I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.
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The world shall know that I will keep my faith to friends and enemies, come what will.
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My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully.
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The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.
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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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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it the tree is the real thing.
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We live in the midst of alarms anxiety beclouds the future we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.
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I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of.
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The Almighty has His own purposes.
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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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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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But for that Book, we could not know right from wrong.
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I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of God I shall continue to do so.
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