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The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.
Abraham Lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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We better know there is a fire whence we see much smoke rising than we could know it by one or two witnesses swearing to it. The witnesses may commit perjury, but the smoke cannot.
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I destroy my enemy if I make him my friend.
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In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
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Liquor may have its defenders, but it has no defense.
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Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly, or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or with them, about their slaves? If they do, I wish to assure you, as once a friend, and still, I hope, not an enemy, that there is no cause for such fears.
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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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Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises verywell, considering we never controlled him much.
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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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If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
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If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die.
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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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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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I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the way for our doing it.
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Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.
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The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.
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