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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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Nevertheless, amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance on God, knowing that all would go well, and that He would decide for the right.
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If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything.
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Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?
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People are just as happy as they choose to be.
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The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
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Property is the fruit of labor property is desirable it is a positive good.
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All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy.
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At 50, if you are on a diet on your birthday, you can't eat a piece of your birthday cake. So grab two, a piece in each hand and, lo and behold, you will be on a balanced diet! Happy birthday, old chum!
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Anybody will do for you, but not for me.
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There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed.
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Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent.
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I have always wanted to deal with everyone I meet candidly and honestly. If I have made any assertion not warranted by facts, and it is pointed out to me, I will withdraw it cheerfully.
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When you have got a ticket to send, and you're not a top costumer, it's best not to waste your time.
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I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
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I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.
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My policy is to have no policy.
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I have seen your despatch expressing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are. Neither am I willing. Hold on with a bull-dog gripe, and chew & choke, as much as possible.
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I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.
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We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
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In my entire life I have only met four perfect people... and I disliked them all.
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