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When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Acknowledge Any Appreciate Difficult Exists Fact Get Institution More Origin People Responsible Rid Said Satisfactory Saying Slavery Southern Tell Than Understand Us Very Way I Can

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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Bad Best Best Way Enforce Get Law Strictly Way

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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Believe Cause Deter Fail Just May Ought Probability Struggle Support Us

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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Confidence Esteem Never Once Regain Respect You Your

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I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

~Abraham Lincoln

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I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel.

~Abraham Lincoln

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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

~Abraham Lincoln

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Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

~Abraham Lincoln

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Never regret what you don't write.

~Abraham Lincoln

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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

~Abraham Lincoln

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: February 12th, 1809

Died: April 15th, 1865

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