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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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We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued.
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As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis--first, because, in the main, it iswrong and secondly, I have not, and can not get, the money. I say, in the main, the use of money is wrong but for certain objects, in a political contest, the use of some, is both right, and indispensable.
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I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.
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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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Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.
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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
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Nothing is stronger than gentleness.
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Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts.
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I do the very best I know how - the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
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Woe unto the world because of offenses for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.
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confused and Stunned, like a duck hit on the head.
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Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
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That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
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Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.
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