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in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.
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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If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions, not wholly unworthy of its almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly, alone, hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.
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Cling to liberty and right battle fro them leed for them die for them, if need be and have confidence in God.
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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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The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity.
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I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.
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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
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To say a sheep has 5 legs doesn't make it so.
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Bad promises are better broken than kept.
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Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
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What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
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Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises verywell, considering we never controlled him much.
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I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.
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My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
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It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.
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I destroy my enemy if I make him my friend.
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As long as the Almighty permitted intelligent men, created in his image and likeness, to fight in public and kill each other while the world looks on approvingly, it's not for me to deprive the chickens of the same privilege.
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I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.
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Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged by ambitious and designing men, but stand fast to the Union and the old flag.
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