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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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So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.
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Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.
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It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved.
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The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.
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And whereas this House desires to obtain a full knowledge of all the facts which go to establish whether the particular spot of soil which the blood of our citizens was so shed was, or was not, our own soil.
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It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards.
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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.
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I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.
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in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.
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Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.
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Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.
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We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.
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Property is the fruit of labor property is desirable it is a positive good.
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Your organization will take on the personality of its top leaders
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If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others
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Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privileges and positions. The present moment finds me at the White House, yet there is as good a chance for your children as there was for my father's.
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One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.
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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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I can hardly believe that the South and North can live in peace, unless we can get rid of the negroes ... I believe that it would be better to export them all to some fertile country with a good climate, which they could have to themselves.
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As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.
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