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To say a sheep has 5 legs doesn't make it so.
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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...I do not mean to say that this general government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs in the world but I do think that it is charged with the duty of preventing and redressing all wrongs which are wrongs to itself.
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Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done again.
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It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.
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Don’t criticize them they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.
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The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers.
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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
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I am absent altogether too much to be a suitable instructor for a law-student. When a man has reached the age that Mr. Widner has,and has already been doing for himself, my judgment is, that he reads the books for himself without an instructor. That is precisely the way I came to the law.
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
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As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?
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If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
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May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.
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The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything.
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