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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
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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
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If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others
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I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a mouth to receive bread, hands to feed it, and his hand has a right to carry bread to his mouth without controversy.
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Most people are as happy as they want to be.
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Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.
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History is not history unless it is the truth.
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I believe I shall never be old enough to speak without embarrassment when I have nothing to talk about.
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I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under the national auspices, - I am inflexible. I am for no compromise which assists or permits the extension of the institution on soil owned by the nation.
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That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.
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Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
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It is much easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going.
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One is a majority if he is right.
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Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream.
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Do I not damage my enemies after i make them my close friends?
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If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
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You must think I am a high-priced man.... Fifteen dollars is enough for the job. I send you a receipt for fifteen dollars, and return to you a ten-dollar bill.
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