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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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Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered.
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The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.
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Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.
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This nation under God
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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
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I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.
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If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly lean in flesh, weighing on an average one hundred and eighty pounds dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes -- no other marks or brands recollected.
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There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow.
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Think of strangers as friends you not met yet.
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I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above.
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I cannot bring myself to believe that any human being lives who would do me any harm.
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I never trusted a man who never smoked or drank.
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
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I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. Leaving the higher matter of eternal consequences, between him and his Maker, I still do not think any man has the right thus to insult the feelings, and injure the morals, of the community in which he may live.
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...Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man-this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore they must be placed in and inferior position...Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal.
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We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose. If we fail, it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.
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I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.
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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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I was raised to farm work.
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If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.
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