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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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I turn, then, and look to the American people and to that God who has never forsaken them.
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I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it.
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The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.
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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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