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My policy is to have no policy.

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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Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.
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And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.
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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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[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.
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Adversity does not make us frail it only shows us how frail we are.
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If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
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So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government and so to resist force, employed for its destruction, by force, for its preservation.
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Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.
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Liquor may have its defenders, but it has no defense.
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Our attitude is more honest and more consistent than our words.
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You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time.
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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
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We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.
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Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.
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Don't be fooled. I kept all my workout clothes in that top hat.
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All creation is a mine, and every man a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about it, including himself ... are the infinitely various leads from which, man, from the first, was to dig out his destiny.
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There are no bad pictures that's just how your face looks sometimes.
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We must remember that the people of all the States are entitled to all the privileges and immunities of the citizen of the several States. We should bear this in mind, and act in such a way as to say nothing insulting or irritating. I would inculcate this idea, so that we may not, like Pharisees, set ourselves up to be better than other people.
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The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things
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Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers but, if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her.
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