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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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We can not have free government without elections and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.
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We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
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The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you.
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To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
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Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease.
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Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her
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All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
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The President to-night has a dream: - He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said: - He is a very common-looking man. The President replied: - The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them.
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Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?
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Should my administration prove to be a very wicked one...or a very foolish one, if you, the people, are true to yourselves and the Constitution, there is little harm I can do, thank God.
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another mans right of property. Republicans, on the contrary, are for both the man and the dollar but in cases of conflict, the man before the dollar.
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Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.
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When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
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The blessing always comes back to the door of the author.
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Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of another man, neither that other man nor anybody else has a right to object.
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I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.
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Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.
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I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.
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When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest in ferreting out the questions to the bottom, love to dig up the question by the roots and hold it up and dry it before the fires of the mind.
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