Abraham Lincoln

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June 19, 2020

Name: Abraham Lincoln
Born: 02/12/1809
Died: 04/15/1865 (56 years old)

Abraham Lincoln (/ˈlɪŋkən/; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th president of the United States (1861–1865). Lincoln led the nation through its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis in the American Civil War. He preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the U.S. economy.

Birth Place: Sinking Spring Farm, Kentucky, U.S.

Death Place: Washington, D.C., U.S.

Source: Wikipedia

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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.
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I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
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Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
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My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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I do the very best I know how - the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
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The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
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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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My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
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The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
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I never had a policy I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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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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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
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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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Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
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