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The Constitution is not a suicide pact.

Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
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If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.
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Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.
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That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.
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I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.
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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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I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.
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Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.
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I am a moderate walker, however I never stroll back.
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Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.
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Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
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Much is being said about peace and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.
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My policy is to have no policy.
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I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election but if they do, the true [cure] is in the next election, and not in the treachery of the person elected.
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Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
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The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.
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