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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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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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We must remember that the people of all the States are entitled to all the privileges and immunities of the citizen of the several States. We should bear this in mind, and act in such a way as to say nothing insulting or irritating. I would inculcate this idea, so that we may not, like Pharisees, set ourselves up to be better than other people.
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Whether you look for the good or look for the bad in a person, you'll find it. A. Lincoln
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I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms, by no means excluding females.
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The master not only governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether different from those which he prescribes for himself. Allow ALL the governed an equal voice in the government, and that, and that only, is self-government.
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And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?
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I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses.
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It is much easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going.
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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
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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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Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.
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Others have been made fools of by the girls but, this can never be with truth said of me. I most emphatically, in this instance,made a fool of myself.
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Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.
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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.
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Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other right.
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My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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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 new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet
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Violence begins where knowledge ends.
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