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What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.

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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel.
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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.
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Nothing will divert me from my purpose.
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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.
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No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them but in this case, favour to me,would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it.
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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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Received as I am by the members of a legislature the majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments, I trust that I may have their assistance in piloting the ship of state through this voyage, surrounded by perils as it is for if it should suffer wreck now, there will be no pilot ever needed for another voyage.
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At 50, if you are on a diet on your birthday, you can't eat a piece of your birthday cake. So grab two, a piece in each hand and, lo and behold, you will be on a balanced diet! Happy birthday, old chum!
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I think I stand where that man stands.
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I am for the people of the whole nation doing just as they please in all matters which concern the whole nation for that of each part doing just as they choose in all matters which concern no other part and for each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.
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Work, work, work, is the main thing.
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But fight we must and conquer we shall in the end.
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When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.'
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The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.
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All I have learned, I learned from books.
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