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Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.
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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That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.
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If the American people could learn what I know of the fierce hatred of the priests of Rome against our institutions, our schools, our most sacred rights, and our so dearly bought liberties, they would drive them out as traitors.
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Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.
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I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
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I always [or often] walk slowly, but I never walk backwards.
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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.
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I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
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It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to mean no more than that an army is better directed by a single mind, though inferior, than by two superior ones at variance and cross-purposes with each other.
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I never tire of reading Tom Paine.
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Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
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It's bad. It's damned bad.
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You must think I am a high-priced man.... Fifteen dollars is enough for the job. I send you a receipt for fifteen dollars, and return to you a ten-dollar bill.
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I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
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I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.
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How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.
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We will make converts day by day we will grow strong by the violence and injustice of our adversaries. And, unless truth be a mockery and justice a hollow lie, we will be in the majority after a while.
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