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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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The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years, and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.
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In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
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I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.
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Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
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God bless the soldiers and seamen, with all their brave commanders.
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The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.
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The Lord spared the fitten and the rest he seen fitten to die.
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If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die.
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Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases.
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If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.
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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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Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.
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