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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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If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two good thoughts
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We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
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. . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . .
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Teach hope to all, despair to none.
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I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was'.
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Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief. Once relieved, its form of government is saved to the world its beloved history, and cherished memories, are vindicated and its happy future fully assured, and rendered inconceivably grand.
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War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.
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Some day I shall be President.
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Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.
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Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.
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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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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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I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do or not do any particular thing, He finds a way of letting me know it
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Everybody appreciates a compliment.
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Nor must Uncle Sam's Web-feet be forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broadbay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been, and made their tracks.
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It is not our frowning battlements...or the strength our gallant and disciplined army? These are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land... Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.
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Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.
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I have neither time nor disposition to enter into discussion with the Friend, and end this occasion by suggesting for her consideration the question whether, if it be true that the Lord has appointed me to do the work she has indicated, it is not probable that he would have communicated knowledge of the fact to me as well as to her.
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But for that Book, we could not know right from wrong.
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I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me
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