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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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If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.
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He who does something at the head of one Regiment, will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred.
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All creation is a mine, and every man a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about it, including himself ... are the infinitely various leads from which, man, from the first, was to dig out his destiny.
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I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.
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Teach hope to all, despair to none.
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The time has come when I am for everybody fighting the rebels. Let Indians fight them let the Negroes fight them and if you have got any strong-legged jackasses in Iwoa that can kick rebels to death, they have my hearty consent.
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The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for allcommanders.
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[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.
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Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.
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Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.
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We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
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I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main matterfor that I have determined for myself.
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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
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There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
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So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object
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I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.
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In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
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