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I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.
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 am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.
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Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.
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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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All the armies of Europe combined could not by force make a track upon the Blue Ridge, or take a drink from the Ohio. If we are to be destroyed, we must do it ourselves.
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Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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Free labor has the inspiration of hope pure slavery has no hope.
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I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day.
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I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was'.
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