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Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a personal friend of mine, wouldtell him that you have reason to believe he is mistaken.
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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Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
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We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
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That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
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In all that people can do for themselves, government ought not to interfere.
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Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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I could not sleep when I got on the hunt for an idea, until I had caught it. This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck with me.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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We believe that the spreading out and perpetuity of the institution of slavery impairs the general welfare. We believe - nay, we know, that that is the only thing that has ever threatened the perpetuity of the Union itself.
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My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I...fell in love with her and what is more, I have never fallen out.
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To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
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A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.
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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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No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them but in this case, favour to me,would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it.
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I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.
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The Constitution is not a suicide pact.
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Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation.
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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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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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