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Anxiety beclouds the future.

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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The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.
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So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!
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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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If there is a worse place than Hell, I am in it.
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But the proclamation, as law, either is valid, or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If it is valid, it can not be retracted, any more than the dead can be brought to life.
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I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.
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Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.
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If I am killed, I can die by once but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.
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It is not our frowning battlements...or the strength our gallant and disciplined army? These are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land... Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.
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We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.
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It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
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Gratefully accepting the proffered honor, [to inscribe a new legal work to him] I give the leave, begging only that the inscription may be in modest terms, not representing me as a man of great learning, or a very extraordinary one in any respect.
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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.
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God bless the Methodist Church - bless all the churches - and blessed be God, Who, in this our great trial, giveth us the churches.
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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.
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Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.
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