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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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Remembering that Peter denied his Lord with an oath, after most solemnly protesting that he never would, I will not swear I will make no committals but I do think I will not.
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What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.
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I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.
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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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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
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Lincoln called laughter the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life.
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There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.
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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
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A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.
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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
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I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything?
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So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!
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Cling to liberty and right battle fro them leed for them die for them, if need be and have confidence in God.
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You may have a wen or a cancer upon your person and not be able to cut it out lest you bleed to death but surely it is no way tocure it, to engraft it and spread it over your whole body.
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My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.
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His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.
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I am a moderate walker, however I never stroll back.
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Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.
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Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.
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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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