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We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.
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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It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And, when they do, they will as naturally seek the gratification of their ruling passion, as others have so done before them.
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A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.
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Government should stand behind its currency and credit and the bank deposits of the nation. No individual should suffer a loss of money through depreciation or inflated currency of Bank bankruptcy.
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Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed without slavery it could not continue.
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I think I stand where that man stands.
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Cortissoz was art critic of the New York Herald Tribune.
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The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.
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This is a world of compensations and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.
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There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.
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Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged by ambitious and designing men, but stand fast to the Union and the old flag.
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I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.
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Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away.
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We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.
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I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.
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Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.
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I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
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