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When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.
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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I see a very dark cloud on America's horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome.
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Peace will come soon to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure their cases and pay the costs.
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I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us.
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Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
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My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.
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Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.
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All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy.
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He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
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I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.
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I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.
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This is essentially a people's contest... whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from all shoulders - to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all - to afford all, an unfettered start and a fair chance, in the race of life.
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I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.
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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
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