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Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.

Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.
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Property is the fruit of labor property is desirable it is a positive good.
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When I got him out he was near froze solid and shivering. He was shaking so hard that I wasted half a glass of whiskey trying to aim it for his mouth. Must have got enough of it into him, though, since it did seem to bring him back to life.
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I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army.
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Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.
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Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite
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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
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Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
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What are you gonna do for a face when the baboon wants his ass back?
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A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be.
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It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.
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What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?
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We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.
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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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As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.
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I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.
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Free labor has the inspiration of hope pure slavery has no hope.
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A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... He will assume control of your cities, states and nations. He is going to move in and take over your churches, schools, universities, and corporations ... The fate of humanity is in his hands.
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Never change horses in midstream.
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A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.
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