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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded.
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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I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the sternest necessity can ever justify it. A government had better go to the extreme of toleration, than to do aught that could be construed into an interference with, or to jeopardize in any degree, the common rights of its citizens.
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Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.
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There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.
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The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.
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I think I stand where that man stands.
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