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'As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.'
- Abraham Lincoln

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For Lincoln ambition for a high station in life, as his law partner of nearly 20 years William Herndon put it, was 'a little engine that knew no rest.'

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 ‘As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.'
- Abraham Lincoln

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'Force is all-conquering but its victories are short-lived.'
- Abraham Lincoln

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'As our case is new so we must think anew and act anew.'
- Abraham Lincoln

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One day Senator Sumner strolled in to find the President polishing his own boots. 'Why, Mr. President, do you polish your own boots?' The President replied, 'Whose boots do you think I polished?'

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On meeting General Philip Sheridan, who was only 5' 4,” Lincoln shook his hand and said, 'General Sheridan, when this peculiar war began I thought cavalrymen should be at least 6 feet 4 inches high, but,' still gazing down on the short general, 'I have changed my mind: 5' 4’ will do in a pinch.'
- Abraham Lincoln