American - President | February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Abraham Lincoln
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It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
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In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.
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It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.
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If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.
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The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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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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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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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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In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.
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