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Democracy is government of, by and for the people.

Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!
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Anxiety beclouds the future.
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Free labor has the inspiration of hope pure slavery has no hope.
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I never trusted a man who never smoked or drank.
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And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.
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I have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me.
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I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under the national auspices, - I am inflexible. I am for no compromise which assists or permits the extension of the institution on soil owned by the nation.
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Believing everybody is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.
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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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Lincoln called laughter the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life.
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I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, And this too, shall pass away. How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
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So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government and so to resist force, employed for its destruction, by force, for its preservation.
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I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.
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One is a majority if he is right.
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Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
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Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.
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Capital has its proper place and is entitled to every protection. The wages of men should be recognized in the structure of and in the social order as more important than the wages of money [interest].
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Never let your correspondence fall behind.
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