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I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.

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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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The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty
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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?
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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.
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I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination. I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing.
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There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow.
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My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.
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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.
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This is a world of compensations and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.
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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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The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities.
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We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
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The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
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The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.
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There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.
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I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.
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My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I...fell in love with her and what is more, I have never fallen out.
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Teach hope to all, despair to none.
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