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I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me
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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If the union of these States, and the liberties of this people, shall be lost, it is but little to any one man of fifty-two yearsof age, but a great deal to the thirty millions of people who inhabit these United States, and to their posterity in all coming time.
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The strength of a nation lies in the homes of its people.
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us and though with ourlimited understandings we may not be able to comprehend it, yet we cannot but believe, that he who made the world still governs it.
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Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.
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The time has come when I am for everybody fighting the rebels. Let Indians fight them let the Negroes fight them and if you have got any strong-legged jackasses in Iwoa that can kick rebels to death, they have my hearty consent.
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Why don't you laugh? If I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do.
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Lincoln called laughter the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life.
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You know I dislike slavery and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.
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Government should stand behind its currency and credit and the bank deposits of the nation. No individual should suffer a loss of money through depreciation or inflated currency of Bank bankruptcy.
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With malice towards none with charity for all.
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We can not have free government without elections and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.
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We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.
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Cling to liberty and right battle fro them leed for them die for them, if need be and have confidence in God.
Abraham Lincoln
A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.
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You may have a wen or a cancer upon your person and not be able to cut it out lest you bleed to death but surely it is no way tocure it, to engraft it and spread it over your whole body.
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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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We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
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The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.
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I will either be America's greatest president or its last.
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