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Most people are as happy as they want to be.
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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And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonnet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation.
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Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest. Among the most satisfying proofs of this conviction is the hearty devotion everywhere exhibited by our schools and colleges to the national cause.
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Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done again.
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I am busily engaged in study of the Bible.
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Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.
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As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.
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It's time for me to go. But I would rather stay.
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Bad promises are better broken than kept.
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We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.
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If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined.
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God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.
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Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.
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Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men
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The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.
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I can't spare this man, he fights!
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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
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Nor must Uncle Sam's Web-feet be forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broadbay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been, and made their tracks.
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During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel of it to each of my other generals!
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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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Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object
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