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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.
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If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die.
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There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
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In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong as silly and as wise asbad and good.
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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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You have confidence in yourself, which is valuable, if not an indispensable quality.
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If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
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Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me
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To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.
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In my entire life I have only met four perfect people... and I disliked them all.
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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
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As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.
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The political horizon looks dark and lowering but the people, under Providence, will set all right.
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You cannot fail unless you quit.
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You know I dislike slavery and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.
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Our political problem now is, Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?
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As the problems are new, we must disenthrall ourselves from the past.
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So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.
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I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
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I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.
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