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The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.

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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
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Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?
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Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
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Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated.
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It may be affirmed, without extravagance, that the free institutions we enjoy, have developed the powers, and improved the condition, of our whole people, beyond any example in the world.
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We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it. Therefore we must take a man whose opinions are known.
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Nevertheless, amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance on God, knowing that all would go well, and that He would decide for the right.
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You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live.
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Killing the dog does not cure the bite.
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Nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face, nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting out.
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There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest. I say vague, because when we consider to what extent confidence and honors are reposed in and conferred upon lawyers by the people, it appears improbable that their impression of dishonesty is very distinct and vivid. Yet the impression is common, almost universal.
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Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other right.
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When I lay down the reins of this administration, I want to have one friend left. And that friend is myself.
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An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not distinctly and expressly affirmed in it.
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You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
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I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.
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If we have no friends, we have no pleasure and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.
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