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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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I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.
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Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.
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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?
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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations and to no one of them, more than to yourself.
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You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it the tree is the real thing.
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If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ‘all men are created equal,' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.
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Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.
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Relying, as I do, upon the Almighty Power, and encouraged as I am by these resolutions which you have just read, with the support which I receive from Christian men, I shall not hesitate to use all the means at my control to secure the termination of this rebellion, and will hope for success.
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I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.
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We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us and though with ourlimited understandings we may not be able to comprehend it, yet we cannot but believe, that he who made the world still governs it.
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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
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The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.
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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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