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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
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I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.
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I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.
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This nation under God
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It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.
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You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry
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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought
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I cannot imagine anyone looking at the sky and denying God.
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Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.
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If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.
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I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me
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You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid.
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I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams.
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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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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, And this too, shall pass away. How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
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I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.
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Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me
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It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
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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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