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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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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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When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three.... The little advanceI now have upon this store of education, I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity.
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I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. Leaving the higher matter of eternal consequences, between him and his Maker, I still do not think any man has the right thus to insult the feelings, and injure the morals, of the community in which he may live.
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It is a pleasure to be able to quote lines to fit any occasion.
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you can't escape tomorrow's responsibilities by evading it today
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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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I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that his hand is in it. If He has a place and work for me - and I think He has - I believe I am ready.
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Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.
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Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.
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Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
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Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
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In order to win a man to your cause, you must first reach his heart, the great high road to his reason.
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It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
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I have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me.
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Property is the fruit of labor property is desirable it is a positive good.
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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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I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent the Divine will. I am sure that either the one or the other class is mistaken in that belief, and perhaps in some respects both.
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The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.
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