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I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main matterfor that I have determined for myself.

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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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In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands.
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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
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Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.
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It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to mean no more than that an army is better directed by a single mind, though inferior, than by two superior ones at variance and cross-purposes with each other.
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Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.
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I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.
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I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.
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When I lay down the reins of this administration, I want to have one friend left. And that friend is myself.
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Faith is not believing that God can, but that God will.
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So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!
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Let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty.
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Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.
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The good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly applicable to human affairs, and in this as in other things, we may say here that he who is not for us is against us he would gathereth not with us scattereth.
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I freely acknowledge myself the servant of the people, according to the bond of service - the United States Constitution and that, as such, I am responsible to them.
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What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.
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I always [or often] walk slowly, but I never walk backwards.
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