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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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Freedom is the natural condition of the human race, in which the Almighty intended men to live. Those who fight the purpose of the Almighty will not succeed. They always have been, they always will be beaten.
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Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered.
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In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.
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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
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All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy.
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People are just as happy as they choose to be.
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Believing everybody is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.
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We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
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If they do kill me, I shall never die another death.
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The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day. Never let your correspondence fall behind. Whatever piece of business you have in hand, before stopping, do all the labor pertaining to it which can then be done.
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The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
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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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As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.
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There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow.
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When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends.
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If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
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The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth.
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In order to win a man to your cause, you must first reach his heart, the great high road to his reason.
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