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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel of it to each of my other generals!
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The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. --as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS
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I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
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I cannot imagine anyone looking at the sky and denying God.
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Faith is not believing that God can, but that God will.
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But fight we must and conquer we shall in the end.
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You dislike the emancipation proclamation and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.
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Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.
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The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
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You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry
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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.
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Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.
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Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
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That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
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