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I am not an accomplished lawyer.
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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During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel of it to each of my other generals!
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I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.
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I certainly know that if the war fails, the administration fails, and that I will be blamed for it, whether I deserve it or not. And I ought to be blamed, if I could do better. You think I could do better therefore you blame me already. I think I could not do better therefore I blame you for blaming me.
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I never did ask more, nor ever was willing to accept less, than for all the States, and the people thereof, to take and hold their places, and their rights, in the Union, under the Constitution of the United States. For this alone have I felt authorized to struggle and I seek neither more nor less now.
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There' s nothing good in war. Except its ending.
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Being President is like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail... A man in the crowd asked how he liked it, and his reply was that if it wasn't for the honor of the thing, he would much rather walk.
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Labor is the true standard of value.
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If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
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The Almighty has His own purposes.
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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
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I say 'try' if we never try, we shall never succeed.
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My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.
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You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry
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If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die.
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The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.
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Seriously, I do not think I am fit for the Presidency.
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I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
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Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.
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I have seen your despatch expressing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are. Neither am I willing. Hold on with a bull-dog gripe, and chew & choke, as much as possible.
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