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I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else.

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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Peace will come soon to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure their cases and pay the costs.
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Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.
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in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.
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If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined.
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You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.
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Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
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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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