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What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?

Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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The best way to get rid of your enemies is to make them your friends.
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We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.
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And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.
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Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains, its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it.
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I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else.
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I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet.
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When you lack interest in the case the job will very likely lack skill and diligence in the performance.
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The Lord spared the fitten and the rest he seen fitten to die.
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Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief. Once relieved, its form of government is saved to the world its beloved history, and cherished memories, are vindicated and its happy future fully assured, and rendered inconceivably grand.
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Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.
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The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?
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It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.
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On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.
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