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If i get 8 hours to cut a tree i'll spend 7 hours to sharp my knife.

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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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The time has come when I am for everybody fighting the rebels. Let Indians fight them let the Negroes fight them and if you have got any strong-legged jackasses in Iwoa that can kick rebels to death, they have my hearty consent.
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I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.
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The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
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On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.
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Friends, I agree with you in Providence but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.
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Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
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If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.
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With the Catching Ends the Pleasure of the Chase.
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Killing the dog does not cure the bite.
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I never tire of reading Tom Paine.
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Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.
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There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down and they will succeed too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury. Cast about, and see if this feeling has not injured every person you have ever known to fall into it.
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Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed without slavery it could not continue.
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Nothing is stronger than gentleness.
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Being President is like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail... A man in the crowd asked how he liked it, and his reply was that if it wasn't for the honor of the thing, he would much rather walk.
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What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.
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We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose. If we fail, it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.
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Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.
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The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part of thee.
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A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.
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