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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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There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest. I say vague, because when we consider to what extent confidence and honors are reposed in and conferred upon lawyers by the people, it appears improbable that their impression of dishonesty is very distinct and vivid. Yet the impression is common, almost universal.
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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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Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
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This is a world of compensations and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.
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I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.
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You must think I am a high-priced man.... Fifteen dollars is enough for the job. I send you a receipt for fifteen dollars, and return to you a ten-dollar bill.
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You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time.
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When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
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I am nothing, truth is everything.
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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
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If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.
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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
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Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.
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Remembering that Peter denied his Lord with an oath, after most solemnly protesting that he never would, I will not swear I will make no committals but I do think I will not.
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How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.
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Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.
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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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You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak
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