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In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Accordance Act Both Claims Contests Each God Great May Must Party Will Wrong

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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Before Cause Dead Dedicated Devotion Full Gave Great Here Honored Increased Last Measure Rather Remaining Take Task Us Which

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My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Age Animals Bears Came Could Course Did Eighth Father Grew Indiana Kentucky Know Many Much Other Read Region Somehow Still Up Wild Wild Animals Woods Write Year I Came

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Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Concede Egg Government Louisiana New New Government Only Shall Should Smashing Sooner Than

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It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Able Aid Country Free Globe Happiest Happiest People Happy Institutions Intelligent Itself Made Most People Preserve Shall Think Those Us Which Will Your I Think

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I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Am Burning Busy End Fire He His House Letting Like Man Other Out Put Rooms Stop I Am

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I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Come Could Free Good Individually Interested Model Much Never Ought Our Own People Perhaps Question Republican Say See Texas Were

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It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Anything Attempt Early Folly Great Life Make Out Piece

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Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Except Here Marrying Matter Me New Nothing Nothing New Profound Which Wonder

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I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Brought Could Enemy Knew Man Myself Office Open Religion Support Think Whom

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: February 12th, 1809

Died: April 15th, 1865

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