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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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Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.
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I have always wanted to deal with everyone I meet candidly and honestly. If I have made any assertion not warranted by facts, and it is pointed out to me, I will withdraw it cheerfully.
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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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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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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...
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I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
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It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.
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Talk to the jury as though your client's fate depends on every word you utter.
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That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thence forward, and forever free.
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Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest. Among the most satisfying proofs of this conviction is the hearty devotion everywhere exhibited by our schools and colleges to the national cause.
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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
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I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better, it appears to me.
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If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others
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I will either be America's greatest president or its last.
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The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
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