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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.

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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I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet.
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I don't know who my grandfather was I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
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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 know I dislike slavery and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.
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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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I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.
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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.
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Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases.
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Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.
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When I got him out he was near froze solid and shivering. He was shaking so hard that I wasted half a glass of whiskey trying to aim it for his mouth. Must have got enough of it into him, though, since it did seem to bring him back to life.
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Labor is the true standard of value.
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With malice towards none with charity for all.
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I do the very best I know how - the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
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I was raised to farm work.
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If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two good thoughts
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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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Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.
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Being President is like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail... A man in the crowd asked how he liked it, and his reply was that if it wasn't for the honor of the thing, he would much rather walk.
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Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away.
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