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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
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Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
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The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything.
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Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never espouse their quarrels on either side. My sincere wish is that both sides will allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.
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I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.
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Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.
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The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. --as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation.
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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.
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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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We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat it as a wrong in the territories, where our votes will reach it.
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I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams.
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For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life and while all contribute of their substance the soldier puts his life at stake, and often yields it up in his country's cause. The highest merit, then is due to the soldier.
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War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.
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Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated.
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A man's legs must be long enough to reach the ground.
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All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
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We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.
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