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I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.
Abraham Lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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In this troublesome world, we are never quite satisfied. When you were here, I thought you hindered me some in attending to business but now, having nothing but business---no variety---it has grown exceedingly tasteless to me. I hate to sit down and direct documents, and I hate to stay in this old room by myself.
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Negro equality, Fudge!! How long in the Government of a God great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagoguism as this?
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Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers but, if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her.
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All creation is a mine, and every man a miner.
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Seriously, I do not think I am fit for the Presidency.
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We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it. Therefore we must take a man whose opinions are known.
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We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us and though with ourlimited understandings we may not be able to comprehend it, yet we cannot but believe, that he who made the world still governs it.
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Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
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We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.
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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
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It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
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You may have a wen or a cancer upon your person and not be able to cut it out lest you bleed to death but surely it is no way tocure it, to engraft it and spread it over your whole body.
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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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As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.
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When met with a problem I always ask myself what is the right thing to do and then I do it.
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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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Our political problem now is, Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?
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Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
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