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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical if there is nothing wrong in the institution but if you admit that it is wrong, he cannot logically say that anybody has a right to do wrong.
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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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The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.
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Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a mouth to receive bread, hands to feed it, and his hand has a right to carry bread to his mouth without controversy.
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Bring me Longstreet's head on a platter and the war will be over
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He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel.
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It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute political power.
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Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains, its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it.
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Your organization will take on the personality of its top leaders
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I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.
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I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it.
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Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.
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I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
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In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free. I insist that they found the institution of slavery existing here. They did not make it so, but they left it so because they knew of no way to get rid of it at that time.
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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.
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