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...I do not mean to say that this general government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs in the world but I do think that it is charged with the duty of preventing and redressing all wrongs which are wrongs to itself.

Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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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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The matter of fees is important, far beyond the mere question of bread and butter involved. Properly attended to, fuller justice is done to both lawyer and client.
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I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.
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I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.
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I cannot imagine anyone looking at the sky and denying God.
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I am very glad indeed to see you to-night, and yet I will not say I thank you for this call, but I do most sincerely thank Almighty God for the occasion on which you have called.
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It is for us and our time...to say the right makes might.
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A man's legs must be long enough to reach the ground.
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My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I...fell in love with her and what is more, I have never fallen out.
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I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. Leaving the higher matter of eternal consequences, between him and his Maker, I still do not think any man has the right thus to insult the feelings, and injure the morals, of the community in which he may live.
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Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever-it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself.
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Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.
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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
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My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.
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Violence begins where knowledge ends.
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All that harms labor is treason to America.
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Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privileges and positions. The present moment finds me at the White House, yet there is as good a chance for your children as there was for my father's.
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