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Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed without slavery it could not continue.
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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Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
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Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
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God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
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Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.
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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
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The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also. With a reliance on Providence, all the more firm and earnest, let us proceed in the great task which events have devolved upon us.
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Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation.
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God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.
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A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad.
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He has got the slows, Mr. Blair.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand.
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For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life and while all contribute of their substance the soldier puts his life at stake, and often yields it up in his country's cause. The highest merit, then is due to the soldier.
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Should my administration prove to be a very wicked one...or a very foolish one, if you, the people, are true to yourselves and the Constitution, there is little harm I can do, thank God.
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Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
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If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions.
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This nation under God
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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.
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The good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly applicable to human affairs, and in this as in other things, we may say here that he who is not for us is against us he would gathereth not with us scattereth.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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