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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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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.
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If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions.
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Life is hard but so very beautiful
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Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of another man, neither that other man nor anybody else has a right to object.
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
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Friends, I agree with you in Providence but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.
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Let no young man choosing the law for a calling for a moment yield to the popular belief -- resolve to be honest at all events and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer.
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The blessing always comes back to the door of the author.
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The world shall know that I will keep my faith to friends and enemies, come what will.
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Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.
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My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age and he grew up, literally without education.
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Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.
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Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.
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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?
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As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.
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The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.
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Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves muchthe higher consideration.
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Free labor has the inspiration of hope pure slavery has no hope.
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I am always for the man who wishes to work.
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