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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day.
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
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It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards.
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Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.
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I couldn't be two faced. If I had two faces, I wouldn't wear this one.
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The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.
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You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.
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Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.
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Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
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An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not distinctly and expressly affirmed in it.
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This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.
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A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
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I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views.
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