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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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When I lay down the reins of this administration, I want to have one friend left. And that friend is myself.
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If you have never failed you have never lived.
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I have never united myself to any church because I found difficulty in giving my assent without mental reservation to the long, complicated statements of Christian doctrine which characterize the articles of belief and the usual confession of faith.
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Politics, as a trade, finds most and leaves nearly all dishonest.
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I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views.
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What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?
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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
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If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined.
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Never change horses in midstream.
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Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, . . . nor of torture to extort confessions.
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Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
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I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
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Never do anything for anyone who can just as well do it themself
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life and while all contribute of their substance the soldier puts his life at stake, and often yields it up in his country's cause. The highest merit, then is due to the soldier.
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Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent.
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That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now, is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed, and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all, to be an undecided experiment now, it is understood to be a successful one.
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Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.
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I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.
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Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object
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