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The Almighty has His own purposes.
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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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.
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Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
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Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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I certainly know that if the war fails, the administration fails, and that I will be blamed for it, whether I deserve it or not. And I ought to be blamed, if I could do better. You think I could do better therefore you blame me already. I think I could not do better therefore I blame you for blaming me.
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Free labor has the inspiration of hope pure slavery has no hope.
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We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.
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Teach hope to all, despair to none.
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May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.
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Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease.
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