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I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges let it be written in Primmers, spelling books, and in Almanacs let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.
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We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued.
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Honor is better than honors.
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It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
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I don't know who my grandfather was I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
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Senator Douglas holds, we know, that a man may rightfully be wiser today than he was yesterday - that he may rightfully change when he finds himself wrong. But can we, for that reason, run ahead, and infer that he will make any particular change, of which he, himself, has given no intimation?
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Through their deeds, the dead of battle have spoken more eloquently for themselves than any of the living ever could. But we can only honor them by rededicating ourselves to the cause for which they gave a last full measure of devotion.
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The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
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We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.
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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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I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
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I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am.
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Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.
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You know I dislike slavery and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.
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I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down and they will succeed too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury. Cast about, and see if this feeling has not injured every person you have ever known to fall into it.
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