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Famous Quotes By Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin near Hodgenville, Kentucky, on February 12, 1809. He was the 16th president of the United States of America. On April 14th 1865 he was assasinated by the actor, John Wilkes Booth while attending Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C.

There is a massive statue of Abraham Lincoln in the centre section of the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C. It was designed by Darliel Chester French.

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He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.

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

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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

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