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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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As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.
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When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends.
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What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
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I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.
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I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.
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Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.
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Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
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Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
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Work, work, work, is the main thing.
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My policy is to have no policy.
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Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.
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To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.
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Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert? I think that in such a cse to silence the agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional but withal a great mercy.
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As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.
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The best time to stop a fight is before it starts. The best vitamin for developing friends is B1. The best way to destroy an enemy in to make him a friend.
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Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.
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I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.
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