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Never do anything for anyone who can just as well do it themself
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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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never espouse their quarrels on either side. My sincere wish is that both sides will allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.
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Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
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Don’t criticize them they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.
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I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet.
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I have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me.
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I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence, I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.
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[If not re-elected in 1864] then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards.
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I will do what I think is right and when I discover that it is wrong, I will change it.
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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
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We believe that the spreading out and perpetuity of the institution of slavery impairs the general welfare. We believe - nay, we know, that that is the only thing that has ever threatened the perpetuity of the Union itself.
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The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.
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You are young, and I am older You are hopeful, I am not- Enjoy life, ere it grow colder- Pluck the roses ere they rot.
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Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.
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I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.
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Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.
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As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes I cannot see you.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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History is not history unless it is the truth.
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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
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