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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.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Barrels Different Distance Every Fellow Get He Here Himself Off Oh Perspiration Shed Slaves Standing Us While Work Yes You Your

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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Books His Man New Original Serve Show Those Thoughts Very

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Desires Every Live Long Old Would

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I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Cost Generals Horses Make Money More I Can

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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Act Bees Fighting He Hear Him Like Man Preach See Were

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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Agreement Anything Else Master Mind Must Single Some Will

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To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Ballots Bloody Bullets Give Necessary Only Peaceful Right Victory

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In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Am Cutting Every Far Favor Government Home Lands Man May Poor Poor Man Up Wild I Am

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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.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: All The World Almighty Architect Beside Boldly Cause Contemplate Country Defiance Deserted Dimensions Elevate Ever Expand Feel Her Lone Me Soul Standing Standing Up Those Unworthy Up Victorious Wholly Within World I Feel

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We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Any Civil Ends Essentially Find Former Government History Institutions Liberty More Ourselves Political Religious System Tells Than The History Of Times Us Which

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: February 12th, 1809

Died: April 15th, 1865

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