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I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am.

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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you can't escape tomorrow's responsibilities by evading it today
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And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.
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You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time.
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The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.
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If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die.
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A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.
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The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
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Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?
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Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.
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It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to mean no more than that an army is better directed by a single mind, though inferior, than by two superior ones at variance and cross-purposes with each other.
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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
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As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes I cannot see you.
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Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
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[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.
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That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thence forward, and forever free.
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And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.
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I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election but if they do, the true [cure] is in the next election, and not in the treachery of the person elected.
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If there is no military need for the building, leave it alone, neither putting anyone in or out of it, except on finding some one preaching or practicing treason, in which case lay hands on him, just as if he were doing the same thing in any other building.
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Without Divine assistance I can not succeed with it I can not fail.
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