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Being President is like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail... A man in the crowd asked how he liked it, and his reply was that if it wasn't for the honor of the thing, he would much rather walk.

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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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All that serves labor serves the Nation. All ^ that harms labor is treason to America. No line can be drawn between these two. If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool. There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.
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The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities.
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No man ever got lost on a straight road.
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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
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Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.
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I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.
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Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged by ambitious and designing men, but stand fast to the Union and the old flag.
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The best way to get rid of your enemies is to make them your friends.
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I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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Negro equality, Fudge!! How long in the Government of a God great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagoguism as this?
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Relying, as I do, upon the Almighty Power, and encouraged as I am by these resolutions which you have just read, with the support which I receive from Christian men, I shall not hesitate to use all the means at my control to secure the termination of this rebellion, and will hope for success.
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Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
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Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.
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Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.
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My father taught me to work he did not teach me to love it.
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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.
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My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age and he grew up, literally without education.
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