Abraham Lincoln

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Born Sunday 12 February 1809, died Saturday 15 April 1865

Occupation: President

Nationality: American

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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

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To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

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Some day I shall be President.

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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

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Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

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I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

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Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

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What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

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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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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

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With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time."

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In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

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