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We can succeed only by concert. It is not 'can any of us imagine better?, but 'can we all do better?

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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May our children and our children's children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have cause yet to rejoice under those glorious institutions bequeathed us by Washington and his compeers.
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We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued.
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I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.
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confused and Stunned, like a duck hit on the head.
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Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
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I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.
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If I am killed, I can die by once but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.
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Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
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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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A fellow once came to me to ask for an appointment as a minister abroad. Finding he could not get that, he came down to some more modest position. Finally, he asked to be made a tide-waiter. When he saw he could not get that, he asked me for an old pair of trousers. It is sometimes well to be humble.
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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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you can't escape tomorrow's responsibilities by evading it today
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We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
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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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It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives.
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Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.
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If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.
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