Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, known for leading the nation through the Civil War and abolishing slavery.

Born
February 12, 1809
Died
April 15, 1865
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"The best time to stop a fight is before it starts. The best vitamin for developing friends is B1. The best way to destroy an enemy in to make him a friend."

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"Most people are as happy as they want to be."

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"The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves."

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"You know you've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution"

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"No man ever got lost on a straight road."

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"If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government."

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"Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains, its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it."

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"We can succeed only by concert. It is not 'can any of us imagine better?, but 'can we all do better?"

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"I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union, and the perpetuity of popular government; and to redress wrongs already long enough endured."

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"Never do anything for anyone who can just as well do it themself"

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"Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation."

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"I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth."

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"Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid."

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"The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control."

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"Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war."

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