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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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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.
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The best way to get rid of your enemies is to make them your friends.
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Violence begins where knowledge ends.
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No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
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The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
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No man has a right to judge Andrew Johnson in any respect who has not suffered as much and done as much as he for the Nation's sake.
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I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union, and the perpetuity of popular government and to redress wrongs already long enough endured.
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If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised by the other.
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In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all but now, to aid in the making the bondage of the negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, and sneered at, and construed, and hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.
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I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.
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The foregoing history may not be precisely accurate in every particular but I am sure it is sufficiently so, for all the uses I shall attempt to make of it, and in it, we have before us, the chief material enabling us to correctly judge whether the repeal of the Missouri Compromise is right or wrong.
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History is not history unless it is the truth.
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
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I am busily engaged in study of the Bible.
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If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
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I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.
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I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
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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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I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.
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I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
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