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I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.
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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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Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
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All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.
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Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.
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But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only good thing which no man ever seeks the good of, for himself.
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The worst thing you can do for anyone you care about is anything that they can do on their own.
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The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.
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Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object
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Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
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And while it has not pleased the Almighty to bless us with a return of peace, we can but press on, guided by the best light He gives, trusting that in His own good time, and wise way, all will yet be well.
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Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privileges and positions. The present moment finds me at the White House, yet there is as good a chance for your children as there was for my father's.
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In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free. I insist that they found the institution of slavery existing here. They did not make it so, but they left it so because they knew of no way to get rid of it at that time.
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I do the very best I know how - the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
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Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away.
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I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.
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Why don't you laugh? If I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do.
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You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
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