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Honor is better than honors.

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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Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged.
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Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief.
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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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The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.
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Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed
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It is for us and our time...to say the right makes might.
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Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.
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Every head should be cultivated.
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We seek not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow those who would prevert it.
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A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad.
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No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
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I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.
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I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.
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It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.
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If there is no military need for the building, leave it alone, neither putting anyone in or out of it, except on finding some one preaching or practicing treason, in which case lay hands on him, just as if he were doing the same thing in any other building.
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No State, upon it own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally nothing. I therefore consider that the Union is unbroken. There needs to be no bloodshed or violence and there shall be none, unless forced upon the national authority.
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Doubtless you begin to understand how disagreeable it is to me to do a thing arbitrarily, when it is unsatisfactory to others associated with me.
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If elected I shall be thankful if not, it will be all the same.
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I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.
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