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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 never had a policy I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
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A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the money.
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Our republican system was meant for a homogeneous people. As long as blacks continue to live with the whites they constitute a threat to the national life. Family life may also collapse and the increase of mixed breed bastards may some day challenge the supremacy of the white man.
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If we have no friends, we have no pleasure and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.
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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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That I am not a member of any Christian Church, is true but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures and I have never spoken with intentional disrepect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.
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It is not our frowning battlements...or the strength our gallant and disciplined army? These are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land... Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
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Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her
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I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.
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Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other right.
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Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.
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The political horizon looks dark and lowering but the people, under Providence, will set all right.
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The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.
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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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Cling to liberty and right battle fro them leed for them die for them, if need be and have confidence in God.
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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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The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.
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