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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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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
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I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.
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I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.
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Our political problem now is, Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?
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And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.
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The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea.
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Do I not damage my enemies after i make them my close friends?
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Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit from circulation by taxation and otherwise, need not and should not borrow capital at interest as a means of financing government work and public enterprises.
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Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.
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God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises.
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Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.
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Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, And this too, shall pass away. How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
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I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
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Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
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In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.
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One is a majority if he is right.
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I could not sleep when I got on the hunt for an idea, until I had caught it. This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck with me.
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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
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