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I turn, then, and look to the American people and to that God who has never forsaken them.

Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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In this troublesome world, we are never quite satisfied. When you were here, I thought you hindered me some in attending to business but now, having nothing but business---no variety---it has grown exceedingly tasteless to me. I hate to sit down and direct documents, and I hate to stay in this old room by myself.
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Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
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If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
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The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty
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Nothing will divert me from my purpose.
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In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.
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We hope all danger may be overcome but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous.
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If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.
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A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.
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Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.
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As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.
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Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges let it be written in Primmers, spelling books, and in Almanacs let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.
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We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.
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A day spent helping no one but yourself is a day wasted.
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What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.
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I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.
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We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.
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I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us.
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