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Anybody will do for you, but not for me.

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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Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
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It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
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I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.
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I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.
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The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
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Negroes, like other people, act upon motives. Why should they do anything for us, if we will do nothing for them? If they stake their lives for us, they must be prompted by the strongest motive, even the promise of freedom. And the promise being made, must be kept.
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My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.
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The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.
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The damnest scoundrel that ever lived, but in the infinite mercy of Providence... also the damnest fool.
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If you have never failed you have never lived.
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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
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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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If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.
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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
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Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.
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We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
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If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are if you do not intend to go to work, you can not get along anywhere.
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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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The land, the earth God gave to man for his home ... should never be the possession of any man, corporation, (or) society ... any more than the air or water.
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