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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 themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
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He has got the slows, Mr. Blair.
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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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I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.
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The strength of a nation lies in the homes of its people.
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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
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Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.
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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
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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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In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong as silly and as wise asbad and good.
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I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war.
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I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.
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No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.
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I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.
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There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.
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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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Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.
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The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here so nobly advanced.
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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
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