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The blessing always comes back to the door of the author.

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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In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.
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Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.
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Never stir up litigation, a worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this, who can be more nearly a fiend than he who habitually overhauls the register of deeds in search of defects in titles, whereon to stir up strife, and put money in his pocket?
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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.
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I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.
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My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.
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My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.
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Negro equality, Fudge!! How long in the Government of a God great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagoguism as this?
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A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the money.
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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.
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I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
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Woe unto the world because of offenses for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.
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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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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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If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.
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