American - President | February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865
I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.
Abraham Lincoln
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It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.
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With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
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I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.
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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
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I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.
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Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.
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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
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The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
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Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.
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