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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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Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.
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Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)
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The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was not made to conceal or destroy the apple, but to adorn and preserve it. The picture was made for the apple-not the apple for the picture.
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I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.
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We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
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The things I want to know are in books my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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A lawyer's time and advice are his(her) stock in trade.
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He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
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No man has a right to judge Andrew Johnson in any respect who has not suffered as much and done as much as he for the Nation's sake.
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I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.
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All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
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We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.
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No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. .. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions.
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The best way to get rid of your enemies is to make them your friends.
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But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only good thing which no man ever seeks the good of, for himself.
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If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two good thoughts
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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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You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time.
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I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
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Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.
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