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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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Never let your correspondence fall behind.
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Politics, as a trade, finds most and leaves nearly all dishonest.
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You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid.
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I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.
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Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.
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Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers.
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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
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And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.
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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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Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time.
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There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.
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It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws but to break up both, and make new ones.
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My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years, and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.
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To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
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The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
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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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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought
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Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.
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In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong as silly and as wise asbad and good.
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Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.
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