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My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.
Abraham Lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... He will assume control of your cities, states and nations. He is going to move in and take over your churches, schools, universities, and corporations ... The fate of humanity is in his hands.
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If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time you can even fool some of the people all of the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.
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If i get 8 hours to cut a tree i'll spend 7 hours to sharp my knife.
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On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.
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The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes.
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The things I want to know are in books my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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It is much easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going.
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I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.
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Politics, as a trade, finds most and leaves nearly all dishonest.
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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
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A fellow once came to me to ask for an appointment as a minister abroad. Finding he could not get that, he came down to some more modest position. Finally, he asked to be made a tide-waiter. When he saw he could not get that, he asked me for an old pair of trousers. It is sometimes well to be humble.
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We cannot but believe that He who made the world still governs it.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
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Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.
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You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.
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It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
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Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite
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No State, upon it own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally nothing. I therefore consider that the Union is unbroken. There needs to be no bloodshed or violence and there shall be none, unless forced upon the national authority.
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