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Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, left his legacy not only in his achievements of freeing the slaves and saving the Union, but also in his eloquent words. Lincoln's quotes are still widely relied upon today as a source of inspiration, and a reminder of his simple, yet profound wisdom. The following are several of Abraham Lincoln's most famous quotes.

"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."-The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations."-Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865

"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other."-Springfield, Illinois, June 16, 1858

"...that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."-Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863

"Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."

"'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."

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

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

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

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

"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves."

"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just."

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."

"You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all of the time, but not all the people all the time."

"Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower should grow."

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will because we destroyed ourselves."

"It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him."

"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to give them the real facts."

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