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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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What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
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As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.
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Capital has its proper place and is entitled to every protection. The wages of men should be recognized in the structure of and in the social order as more important than the wages of money [interest].
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Woe unto the world because of offenses for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.
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To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.
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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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To lead, you must touch men's hearts.
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When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends.
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Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.
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This is a world of compensations and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.
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The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.
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It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws but to break up both, and make new ones.
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I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do or not do any particular thing, He finds a way of letting me know it
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Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
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the better angels of our nature
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Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
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It is not 'Is God on my side', but 'Am I on God's side'.
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It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.
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Through their deeds, the dead of battle have spoken more eloquently for themselves than any of the living ever could. But we can only honor them by rededicating ourselves to the cause for which they gave a last full measure of devotion.
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Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts.
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