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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 husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country can not do this. They can but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them.
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You cannot fail unless you quit.
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Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.
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Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.
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Labor is the true standard of value.
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Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.
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One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.
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We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.
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A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.
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Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.
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The enthusiastic uprising of the people in our cause, is our great reliance and we can not safely give it any check, even thoughit overflows, and runs in channels not laid down in any chart.
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Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.
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Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated.
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Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.
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The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.
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Bring me Longstreet's head on a platter and the war will be over
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Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
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We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.
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I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.
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