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I could not sleep when I got on the hunt for an idea, until I had caught it. This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck with me.

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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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The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.
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I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.
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Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert? I think that in such a cse to silence the agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional but withal a great mercy.
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Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
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We shall meanly lose or nobly save the last hope of earth.
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The blessing always comes back to the door of the author.
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You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
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Don't be fooled. I kept all my workout clothes in that top hat.
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You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
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It is for us and our time...to say the right makes might.
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He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
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My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.
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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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If we know where we are and something about how we got there, we might see where we are trending - and if the outcomes which lie naturally in our course are unacceptable, to make timely change.
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We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.
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The will of God prevails.
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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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You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
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Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her
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