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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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That I am not a member of any Christian Church, is true but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures and I have never spoken with intentional disrepect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.
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People are just as happy as they choose to be.
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As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government.
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I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
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The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.
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All that serves labor serves the Nation. All ^ that harms labor is treason to America. No line can be drawn between these two. 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. There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.
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If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.
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Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.
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Anybody will do for you, but not for me.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.
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I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.
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The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.
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Think of strangers as friends you not met yet.
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Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains, its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it.
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Friendship is the start for what you call love.
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History is not history unless it is the truth.
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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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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Abraham Lincoln
[If not re-elected in 1864] then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards.
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