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Your rights end where my nose begins.
Abraham Lincoln
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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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You think slavery is right and ought to be extended while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.
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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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Remembering that Peter denied his Lord with an oath, after most solemnly protesting that he never would, I will not swear I will make no committals but I do think I will not.
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Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.
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I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
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I walk slowly, but never backwards.
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I am not a very sentimental man and the best sentiment I can think of is, that if you collect the signatures of all persons who are no less distinguished than I, you will have a very undistinguishing mass of names.
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What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.
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. . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . .
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When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends.
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In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free. I insist that they found the institution of slavery existing here. They did not make it so, but they left it so because they knew of no way to get rid of it at that time.
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The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
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I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
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While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for having directed my countrymen to a right conclusion, as I think, for their own good, it adds nothing to my satisfaction that any other man may be disappointed or pained by the result.
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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
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The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful.
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One is a majority if he is right.
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What are you gonna do for a face when the baboon wants his ass back?
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It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute political power.
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Talk to the jury as though your client's fate depends on every word you utter.
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