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We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued.
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 take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some will get wealthy. I dont believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich it would do more harm than good.
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My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully.
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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
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Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite
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I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
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The best way to get rid of your enemies is to make them your friends.
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I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the sternest necessity can ever justify it. A government had better go to the extreme of toleration, than to do aught that could be construed into an interference with, or to jeopardize in any degree, the common rights of its citizens.
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What are you gonna do for a face when the baboon wants his ass back?
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And I am glad to know that there is a system of labor - where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world.
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We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.
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But fight we must and conquer we shall in the end.
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While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for having directed my countrymen to a right conclusion, as I think, for their own good, it adds nothing to my satisfaction that any other man may be disappointed or pained by the result.
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And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.
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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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A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.
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I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might have shared with me in the elevation, I would rather stand on that eminence, than wear the richest crown that ever pressed a monarch's brow.
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We live in the midst of alarms anxiety beclouds the future we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.
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I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.
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We must work earnestly in the best light He gives us.
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