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In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.

Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat it as a wrong in the territories, where our votes will reach it.
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You can always lie to others and hide your actions from them... but you can not fool yourself
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If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.
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Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away.
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Friends, I agree with you in Providence but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.
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Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done again.
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I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.
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Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.
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The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.
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I am for the people of the whole nation doing just as they please in all matters which concern the whole nation for that of each part doing just as they choose in all matters which concern no other part and for each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.
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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
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I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.
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I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
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The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.
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Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.
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Man is not the only animal who labors but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.
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Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.
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I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war.
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You are young, and I am older You are hopeful, I am not- Enjoy life, ere it grow colder- Pluck the roses ere they rot.
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