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Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.
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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Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.
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A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the money.
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None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing
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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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Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember
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I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.
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I freely acknowledge myself the servant of the people, according to the bond of service - the United States Constitution and that, as such, I am responsible to them.
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If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.
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We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
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It is a good face. I am glad this war is over at last.
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All that harms labor is treason to America.
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No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.
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But the proclamation, as law, either is valid, or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If it is valid, it can not be retracted, any more than the dead can be brought to life.
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I have a congenital aversion to failure.
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I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the way for our doing it.
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It's bad. It's damned bad.
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Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.
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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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Don't be fooled. I kept all my workout clothes in that top hat.
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The will of God prevails.
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