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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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I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me.
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Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase the demand for and wages of white labor.
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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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It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.
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You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.
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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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A house divided against itself cannot stand.
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Most people are as happy as they want to be.
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Every head should be cultivated.
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I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.
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Negroes, like other people, act upon motives. Why should they do anything for us, if we will do nothing for them? If they stake their lives for us, they must be prompted by the strongest motive, even the promise of freedom. And the promise being made, must be kept.
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That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thence forward, and forever free.
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Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.
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I never had a policy I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
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Let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty.
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You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you but, no matter. Fight you, then exclusively to save the Union.
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The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.
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I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.
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