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Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
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 am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am.
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My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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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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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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Should my administration prove to be a very wicked one...or a very foolish one, if you, the people, are true to yourselves and the Constitution, there is little harm I can do, thank God.
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I can't spare this man, he fights!
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.
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Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
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Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.
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In order to win a man to your cause, you must first reach his heart, the great high road to his reason.
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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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