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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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I can hardly believe that the South and North can live in peace, unless we can get rid of the negroes ... I believe that it would be better to export them all to some fertile country with a good climate, which they could have to themselves.
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I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.
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It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards.
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No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.
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Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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We cannot escape history.
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I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
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Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent.
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Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.
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To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.
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Bad promises are better broken than kept.
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Twenty-two years ago Judge [then-Senator Stephen] Douglas and I first became acquainted. We were both young then he a trifle younger than I. Even then, we were both ambitious I, perhaps, quite as much so as he. With me, the race of ambition has been a failure--a flat failure with him it has been one of splendid success.
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Everybody likes compliment.
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Adversity does not make us frail it only shows us how frail we are.
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The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
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No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. .. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions.
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I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
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Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.
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