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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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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.
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Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.
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As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.
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Let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty.
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The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
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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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If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.
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We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.
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I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of God I shall continue to do so.
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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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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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As long as the Almighty permitted intelligent men, created in his image and likeness, to fight in public and kill each other while the world looks on approvingly, it's not for me to deprive the chickens of the same privilege.
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The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.
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In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.
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If I am killed, I can die by once but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.
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Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.
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Man is not the only animal who labors but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.
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My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.
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Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.
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There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.
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