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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"I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God."

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"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."

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"No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy."

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"These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people."

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"And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts."

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"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"

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"Let the people know the truth and the country is safe."

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"As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises."

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"If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work."

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"I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom."

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"If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it."

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"I see a very dark cloud on America's horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome."

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"And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord."

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