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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 will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.
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The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.
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We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
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Faith is not believing that God can, but that God will.
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A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet
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I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union, and the perpetuity of popular government and to redress wrongs already long enough endured.
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I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am.
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We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
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Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.
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I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do or not do any particular thing, He finds a way of letting me know it
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I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it.
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Everybody appreciates a compliment.
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The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
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My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.
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I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.
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If we believe the Bible, we must accept the fact that, in the old days, God and his angels came to humans in their sleep and made themselves known in dreams.
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If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
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The foregoing history may not be precisely accurate in every particular but I am sure it is sufficiently so, for all the uses I shall attempt to make of it, and in it, we have before us, the chief material enabling us to correctly judge whether the repeal of the Missouri Compromise is right or wrong.
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
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We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it. Therefore we must take a man whose opinions are known.
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