Creative Quotations from . . .
Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865) born on Feb 12
US "president, lawyer". "He was the 16th U.S. president during the Civil War; wrote "Emancipation Proclamation," and "Gettysburg Address," 1863."
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Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."

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A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.
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Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
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"If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
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"In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed."
 
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Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "Address at Gettysburg, Nov. 19, 1863 [See also government.]"
R: "In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."
A: "'First Inaugural Address', 1861 [See under government for ``government of the people.'']"
N: ""The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions," speech, 27 Jan. 1837, Springfield, Ill."
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