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My God! My God! What will the country say?

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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I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling.
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If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.
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Your rights end where my nose begins.
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.
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I walk slowly, but never backwards.
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As long as the Almighty permitted intelligent men, created in his image and likeness, to fight in public and kill each other while the world looks on approvingly, it's not for me to deprive the chickens of the same privilege.
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, And this too, shall pass away. How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.
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I will learn, the opportunity will come.
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Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
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Don't be fooled. I kept all my workout clothes in that top hat.
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People are just as happy as they choose to be.
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I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.
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No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them but in this case, favour to me,would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it.
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Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.
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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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The blessing always comes back to the door of the author.
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To say a sheep has 5 legs doesn't make it so.
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We shall not fail - if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come.
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