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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.
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The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.
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It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And, when they do, they will as naturally seek the gratification of their ruling passion, as others have so done before them.
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If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.
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Care for him who shall have borne the battle
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I am the President of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me these votes.
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Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite
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Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity.
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The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.
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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought
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As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government.
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No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
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What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not...the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army...our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms...
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Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.
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The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.
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The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.
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I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything.
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In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.
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A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the money.
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I am for the people of the whole nation doing just as they please in all matters which concern the whole nation for that of each part doing just as they choose in all matters which concern no other part and for each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.
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