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When you make it to the top, turn and reach down for the person behind you.
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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Peace will come soon to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure their cases and pay the costs.
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I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.
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I am very glad indeed to see you to-night, and yet I will not say I thank you for this call, but I do most sincerely thank Almighty God for the occasion on which you have called.
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It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.
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[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.
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The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.
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God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises.
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
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I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.
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I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence, I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.
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One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.
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Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
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When I left Springfield [to become President] I asked the people to pray for me. I was not a Christian. When I buried my son, the severest trial of my life, I was not a Christian. But when I went to Gettysburg and saw the graves of thousands of our soldiers, I then and there consecrated myself to Christ.
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The Almighty has His own purposes.
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Free labor has the inspiration of hope pure slavery has no hope.
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It is easiest to be all things to all men, but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.
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I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.
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The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.
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Too many piglets not enough tits.
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That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
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