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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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You are green, it is true but they are green also. You are all green alike.
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I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.
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We better know there is a fire whence we see much smoke rising than we could know it by one or two witnesses swearing to it. The witnesses may commit perjury, but the smoke cannot.
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The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses and [Zachary] Taylor like others, found thorns within it. No human being can fill that station and escape censure.
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Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.
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Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.
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Why don't you laugh? If I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do.
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That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right - stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow.
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.
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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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Liquor may have its defenders, but it has no defense.
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Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest. Among the most satisfying proofs of this conviction is the hearty devotion everywhere exhibited by our schools and colleges to the national cause.
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Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.
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I always remember the prayers of my mother as they always forever.
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We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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