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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

~Abraham Lincoln

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Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

~Abraham Lincoln

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I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman's skillet and the man's ax-helve.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Between Fight Get Great Husband Husband And Wife Learned Man Many Never Party Should Third Wife Woman Years Years Ago

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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Ask Fairness Far Just Men Only Others Power Same Same Thing Shall Thing

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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Anybody Goes He Him Part Right Stand Stands While Wrong

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Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Around Defense Despotism Destroy Doors Everywhere Heritage Lands Liberty Men Our Own Planted Preservation Prizes Seeds Spirit Which You Your

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By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

~Abraham Lincoln

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True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

~Abraham Lincoln

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I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

~Abraham Lincoln

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Always Best Flower Grow Knew Me Planted Said Those Thought Want Where Who Would

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: February 12th, 1809

Died: April 15th, 1865

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