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Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers.

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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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We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed.
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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
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It may be affirmed, without extravagance, that the free institutions we enjoy, have developed the powers, and improved the condition, of our whole people, beyond any example in the world.
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Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.
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Trusting in Him, who can go with me, and remain with you and be every where for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell.
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Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.
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While I have often said that all men out to be free, yet I would allow those colored persons to be slaves who want to be and next to them those white persons who argue in favor of making other people slaves. I am in favor of giving an opportunity to such white men to try it on for themselves.
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I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.
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One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.
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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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What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
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What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
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I am always for the man who wishes to work.
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God bless the Methodist Church - bless all the churches - and blessed be God, Who, in this our great trial, giveth us the churches.
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The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.
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Think of strangers as friends you not met yet.
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I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop
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if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading
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