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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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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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As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.
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Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.
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in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.
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Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember
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The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
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As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.
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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
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Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.
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No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
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That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
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I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.
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We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued.
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Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.
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I will do what I think is right and when I discover that it is wrong, I will change it.
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Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered.
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Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.
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