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Bad promises are better broken than kept.
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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Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.
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Teach hope to all, despair to none.
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The master not only governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether different from those which he prescribes for himself. Allow ALL the governed an equal voice in the government, and that, and that only, is self-government.
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I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of.
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It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.
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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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A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the money.
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Let us renew our trust in god, and go forward without fear.
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The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.
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I am for the people of the whole nation doing just as they please in all matters which concern the whole nation for that of each part doing just as they choose in all matters which concern no other part and for each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.
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I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.
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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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No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own - my creators - not man's. I shall never sink the rights of mankind to the malice, wrong, or avarice of another's wishes, though those wishes come to me in the relation of client and attorney.
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Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.
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When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.
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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 hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me
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I destroy my enemy if I make him my friend.
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No man is poor who has a Godly mother.
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Adversity does not make us frail it only shows us how frail we are.
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