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" Some day I shall be President. "

Abraham Lincoln

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" We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. "

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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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" For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period. "

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" I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side. "

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" Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort. "

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" The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence. "

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" A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me. "

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" I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. "

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" Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there. "

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" I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. "

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" Everybody likes a compliment. "

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" Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people. "

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" If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors. "

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" What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. "

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" The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them. "

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" The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. "

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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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" I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other. "

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" You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. "

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" Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it. "

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" Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in. "

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" I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman's skillet and the man's ax-helve. "

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" You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. "

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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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" I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. "

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" If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance. "

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