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Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions, not wholly unworthy of its almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly, alone, hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.
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Our political problem now is, Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?
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Much is being said about peace and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.
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The matter of fees is important, far beyond the mere question of bread and butter involved. Properly attended to, fuller justice is done to both lawyer and client.
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The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
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Should my administration prove to be a very wicked one...or a very foolish one, if you, the people, are true to yourselves and the Constitution, there is little harm I can do, thank God.
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Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated.
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My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully.
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You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
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The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
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I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.
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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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When I lay down the reins of this administration, I want to have one friend left. And that friend is myself.
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My friends I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being, who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail.
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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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Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.
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I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the way for our doing it.
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No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.
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I don't know who my grandfather was I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
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