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As the problems are new, we must disenthrall ourselves from the past.

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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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We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
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Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.
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I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.
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The health you enjoy is largely your choice
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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
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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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Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.
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His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.
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I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.
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We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.
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Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.
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It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.
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Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration
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As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis--first, because, in the main, it iswrong and secondly, I have not, and can not get, the money. I say, in the main, the use of money is wrong but for certain objects, in a political contest, the use of some, is both right, and indispensable.
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A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
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I am the President of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me these votes.
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We believe that the spreading out and perpetuity of the institution of slavery impairs the general welfare. We believe - nay, we know, that that is the only thing that has ever threatened the perpetuity of the Union itself.
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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
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The blessing always comes back to the door of the author.
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Submitted to the Sec. of War. On principle I dislike an oath which requires a man to swear he has not done wrong. It rejects the Christian principle of forgiveness on terms of repentance. I think it is enough if the man does no wrong hereafter.
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