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Violence begins where knowledge ends.

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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Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.
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The best time to stop a fight is before it starts. The best vitamin for developing friends is B1. The best way to destroy an enemy in to make him a friend.
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.
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My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years, and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.
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We must work earnestly in the best light He gives us.
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We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed.
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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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One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.
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I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.
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My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.
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if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading
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The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth.
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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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The political horizon looks dark and lowering but the people, under Providence, will set all right.
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In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.
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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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Never stir up litigation, a worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this, who can be more nearly a fiend than he who habitually overhauls the register of deeds in search of defects in titles, whereon to stir up strife, and put money in his pocket?
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The land, the earth God gave to man for his home ... should never be the possession of any man, corporation, (or) society ... any more than the air or water.
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It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
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