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Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.
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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Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.
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My God! My God! What will the country say?
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Nor must Uncle Sam's Web-feet be forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broadbay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been, and made their tracks.
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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ‘all men are created equal,' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.
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I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.
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I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.
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I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.
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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.
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I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.
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President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. Why do you try to make friends of them? asked an associate. You should try to destroy them. Am I not destroying my enemies, Lincoln gently replied, when I make them my friends?
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Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.
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And I am glad to know that there is a system of labor - where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world.
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Friendship is the start for what you call love.
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Behind the cloud the sun is still shining.
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Man is not the only animal who labors but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.
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Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.
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The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.
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I freely acknowledge myself the servant of the people, according to the bond of service - the United States Constitution and that, as such, I am responsible to them.
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Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow.
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