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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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With malice towards none with charity for all.
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Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
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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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Received as I am by the members of a legislature the majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments, I trust that I may have their assistance in piloting the ship of state through this voyage, surrounded by perils as it is for if it should suffer wreck now, there will be no pilot ever needed for another voyage.
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All creation is a mine, and every man a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about it, including himself ... are the infinitely various leads from which, man, from the first, was to dig out his destiny.
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We better know there is a fire whence we see much smoke rising than we could know it by one or two witnesses swearing to it. The witnesses may commit perjury, but the smoke cannot.
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I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.
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There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.
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And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.
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I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone.
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Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.
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Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?
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My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
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I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.
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If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.
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Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.
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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
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You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.
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In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.
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The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil.
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