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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.
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The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.
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If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year there could scarcely be one human being left alive--all would have perished by want of subsistence.
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Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. .. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions.
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A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.
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If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ‘all men are created equal,' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.
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Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
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The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.
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I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.
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You dislike the emancipation proclamation and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.
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That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet.
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Let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving.
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you can't escape tomorrow's responsibilities by evading it today
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Do I not damage my enemies after i make them my close friends?
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I turn, then, and look to the American people and to that God who has never forsaken them.
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