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Abraham Lincoln

American President

Born: Feb 12, 1809

Died: Apr 15, 1865

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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. Abraham Lincoln

Justice Strict Mercy Bears Always Than Fruits Richer Found

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. Abraham Lincoln

Work God History Charity Nation Strive Wounds See Finish Gives Firmness Toward None Malice Up Us Let Us Bind Right

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted. Abraham Lincoln

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I will prepare and some day my chance will come. Abraham Lincoln

Day Will Some Come Prepare Chance

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. Abraham Lincoln

Great Failure You Failed Concern Content Whether Your

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. Abraham Lincoln

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A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap. Abraham Lincoln

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty. Abraham Lincoln

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

Today Man Yesterday Think He Wiser Than Much Who

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent. Abraham Lincoln

Government Good Man Other Enough Another Another Man Without Govern Consent

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Abraham Lincoln

Democracy Master Would Idea Expresses Slave

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. Abraham Lincoln

Prayer Anxiety Nation Side Constant Know Always Lord May Right

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it. Abraham Lincoln

Big Too Give Take Noble Offense Should

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. Abraham Lincoln

Success Great Achieve Others Some Proof Great Success Well Success Is

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors. Abraham Lincoln

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Abraham Lincoln

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. Abraham Lincoln

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It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them. Abraham Lincoln

Life Nature People Oppression Tyranny Power Down Add Bitter Would See Shackles Borne Rather More Tend Weight Crush Make Greater Than Yoke Burdens Anything Them Raise

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

Government People Will Allow Itself Them Save

Everybody likes a compliment. Abraham Lincoln

Everybody Compliment Likes

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. Abraham Lincoln

Religion Man Dog Better Care Cat Much Whose

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