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You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven you may drag my soul down to the regions of darkness and despair to be tormented forever but you will never get me to support a measure which I believe to be wrong, although by doing so I may accomplish that which I believe to be right.

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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded.
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If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.
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Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.
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I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.
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Freedom is the natural condition of the human race, in which the Almighty intended men to live. Those who fight the purpose of the Almighty will not succeed. They always have been, they always will be beaten.
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I am the President of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me these votes.
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Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.
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