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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Best Best Friend Book Books Friend Get Know Man Me Read Things Want

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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Better Could First How Judge Know Tending Then Where

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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.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Birth By The People Dead Died Earth For The People Freedom God Government Here Highly Nation New People Perish Resolve Shall Vain

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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Decisions Deliberate Own People Reverse Safely Servants Themselves

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I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Blowing Down Drive Fast Life My Life Pass Preventing Pulled Storm Tent Up

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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

Topics: Brought Conceived Continent Created Dedicated Equal Fathers Forth Four Liberty Men Nation New Our Proposition Score Seven Years Years Ago

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Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Aid Bondage Could Declaration Eternal Framers Graves Held Include Independence Making Now Our Recognize Rise Sacred Thought Till Torn Universal

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I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Administration Affairs Conduct Desire Down Earth End Every Friend Inside Least Left Lost Me One Friend Other Shall This Administration

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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Africa Armies Asia Blue Chest Combined Commander Could Drink Earth Europe Force Make Military Ohio Our Own Take Thousand Thousand Years Track Treasure Trial Years

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I understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo, it should never be abandoned. This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist, without throwing passengers and cargo overboard.

~Abraham Lincoln

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: February 12th, 1809

Died: April 15th, 1865

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