American - President | February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Abraham Lincoln
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No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
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I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
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What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
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Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
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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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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
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With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
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I am rather inclined to silence.
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I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.
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