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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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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything?
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If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.
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All creation is a mine, and every man a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about it, including himself ... are the infinitely various leads from which, man, from the first, was to dig out his destiny.
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One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.
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Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.
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I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.
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To read in the Bible, as the word of God himself, that In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, [] and to preach there-from that, In the sweat of other mans faces shalt thou eat bread, to my mind can scarcely be reconciled with honest sincerity.
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A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.
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I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might have shared with me in the elevation, I would rather stand on that eminence, than wear the richest crown that ever pressed a monarch's brow.
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Every head should be cultivated.
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I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do or not do any particular thing, He finds a way of letting me know it
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As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government.
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I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.
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The world shall know that I will keep my faith to friends and enemies, come what will.
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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 working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.
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The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.
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I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views.
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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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