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I am always for the man who wishes to work.

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 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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With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have a great respect for the semicolin it's a useful little chap
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God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises.
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One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.
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Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.
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I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag.
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Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases.
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The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.
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We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
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Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
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You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
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I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main matterfor that I have determined for myself.
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The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease.
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It is not our frowning battlements...or the strength our gallant and disciplined army? These are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land... Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.
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We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.
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Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.
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I am not a very sentimental man and the best sentiment I can think of is, that if you collect the signatures of all persons who are no less distinguished than I, you will have a very undistinguishing mass of names.
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The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes.
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