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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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If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined.
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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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If I am killed, I can die by once but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.
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My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
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If it were not for my firm belief in an overruling Providence, it would be difficult for me, in the midst of such complications of affairs, to keep my reason on its seat. But I am confident that the Almighty has His plans, and will work them out and, whether we see it or not, they will be the best for us.
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When you have got a ticket to send, and you're not a top costumer, it's best not to waste your time.
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The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.
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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 worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.
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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
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I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.
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Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
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If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions, not wholly unworthy of its almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly, alone, hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.
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Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration
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God bless the soldiers and seamen, with all their brave commanders.
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Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.
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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day.
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