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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 have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.
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And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?
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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 cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
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The world shall know that I will keep my faith to friends and enemies, come what will.
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We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.
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If we know where we are and something about how we got there, we might see where we are trending - and if the outcomes which lie naturally in our course are unacceptable, to make timely change.
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I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main matterfor that I have determined for myself.
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We shall meanly lose or nobly save the last hope of earth.
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Glory to God in the highest, Ohio has saved the Nation.
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Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
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One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.
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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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Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.
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Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.
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Our political problem now is, Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?
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If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time you can even fool some of the people all of the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.
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A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.
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We better know there is a fire whence we see much smoke rising than we could know it by one or two witnesses swearing to it. The witnesses may commit perjury, but the smoke cannot.
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