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That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thence forward, and forever free.

Abraham Lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln's Popular Quotes

I can not but hate the prospect of slavery's expansion. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives…

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It's time for me to go. But I would rather stay.

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Friendship is the start for what you call love.

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Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.

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The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

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Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.

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You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.

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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

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