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If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union?

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Admit Constitution Democracy Form Peacefully People Polygamy Shall State Them Union Utah Will

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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Best Common Looking Lord Makes Many People Reason Them World

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Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Away Before Both Both Sides Cleared Clouds Continue Due Great Great Nation Just Keep Nation Other People Prosper Shall Sides Time Will

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Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Biographies Cheat Commemorate False Generally Lie Misleading Most Only Out Posterity Truth Written

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I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Another Begin Declaration Does Equal Exceptions Independence Know Like Making Man Mean Men Old Other Principle Say Says Should Some Stop Taking Where Which Why Why Not Will You

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With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Fail Nothing Public Sentiment Succeed Without

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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.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: He Him His Like Live Lives Man Place Proud See Which Will

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I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Among Anybody Child Could Earliest Get How Irritated Life Me Mere Months More My Life Never Remember Say School Six Talked Than Understand Used Way I Remember I Can

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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.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Any Dictate Education Engaged Important Most Only People Plan Respecting Say Subject System The Most Important View Which I Can

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There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Attempted Attempts Brood Channel Down He His Injury Keep Man May Mind Over Sometimes Succeed Too True Will Young Young Man

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: February 12th, 1809

Died: April 15th, 1865

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