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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.

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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But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do or not do any particular thing, He finds a way of letting me know it
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Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.
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A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
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I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.
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Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men
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And while it has not pleased the Almighty to bless us with a return of peace, we can but press on, guided by the best light He gives, trusting that in His own good time, and wise way, all will yet be well.
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Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ... nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
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Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done again.
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All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy.
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We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant but has he not reason to entertain a rather extensive opinion of himself? Is he not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future?
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Ready are we all to cry out and ascribe motives when our toes are pinched.
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