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I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.

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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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No man ever got lost on a straight road.
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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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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
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If we believe the Bible, we must accept the fact that, in the old days, God and his angels came to humans in their sleep and made themselves known in dreams.
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Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)
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What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.
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I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.
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