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I will either be America's greatest president or its last.
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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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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Nothing is stronger than gentleness.
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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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It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.
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If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.
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Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.
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I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army.
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Property is the fruit of labor property is desirable it is a positive good.
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Shall we stop this bleeding?
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Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.
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There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.
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In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all but now, to aid in the making the bondage of the negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, and sneered at, and construed, and hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.
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Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember
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I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
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What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.
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I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.
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Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase the demand for and wages of white labor.
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I have always wanted to deal with everyone I meet candidly and honestly. If I have made any assertion not warranted by facts, and it is pointed out to me, I will withdraw it cheerfully.
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When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest in ferreting out the questions to the bottom, love to dig up the question by the roots and hold it up and dry it before the fires of the mind.
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
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