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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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I see a very dark cloud on America's horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.
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The man who stands by and says nothing, when the peril of his government is discussed, can not be misunderstood. If not hindered, he is sure to help the enemy.
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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.
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Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.
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Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?
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Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War.
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We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant but has he not reason to entertain a rather extensive opinion of himself? Is he not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future?
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I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.
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When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends.
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded.
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I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.
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When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three.... The little advanceI now have upon this store of education, I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity.
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With this honor devolves upon you also a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so under God it will sustain you.
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If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised by the other.
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There' s nothing good in war. Except its ending.
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Don't judge a man by the size of his ego or his heart, but on the epicness of his beard and the beautiful woman on his arm
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I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.
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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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In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.
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