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One is a majority if he is right.
Abraham Lincoln
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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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But the proclamation, as law, either is valid, or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If it is valid, it can not be retracted, any more than the dead can be brought to life.
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It is a pleasure to be able to quote lines to fit any occasion.
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I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling.
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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
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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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The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything.
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I say 'try' if we never try, we shall never succeed.
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The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
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Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.
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The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.
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Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.
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I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.
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Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human nature. It still will be the abundance of man's heart, that slavery extension is wrong and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.
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Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time.
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I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.
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What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
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Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease.
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No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.
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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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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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