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We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.

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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Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.
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When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.
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...Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man-this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore they must be placed in and inferior position...Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal.
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That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thence forward, and forever free.
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We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.
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For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life and while all contribute of their substance the soldier puts his life at stake, and often yields it up in his country's cause. The highest merit, then is due to the soldier.
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Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.
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