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Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us
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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To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
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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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I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.
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I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams.
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The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision.
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The things I want to know are in books my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew.
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To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.
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We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
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I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.
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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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I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.
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I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.
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Behind the cloud the sun is still shining.
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Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.
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When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.
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Negroes, like other people, act upon motives. Why should they do anything for us, if we will do nothing for them? If they stake their lives for us, they must be prompted by the strongest motive, even the promise of freedom. And the promise being made, must be kept.
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Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
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Being President is like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail... A man in the crowd asked how he liked it, and his reply was that if it wasn't for the honor of the thing, he would much rather walk.
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