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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

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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I never did ask more, nor ever was willing to accept less, than for all the States, and the people thereof, to take and hold their places, and their rights, in the Union, under the Constitution of the United States. For this alone have I felt authorized to struggle and I seek neither more nor less now.
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Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.
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We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.
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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
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Seriously, I do not think I am fit for the Presidency.
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Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.
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I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone.
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I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.
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