Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

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• Abraham Lincoln:

  It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make ne

• Abraham Lincoln:

  We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do bett

• Abraham Lincoln:

  Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be re

• Abraham Lincoln:

  My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy

• Abraham Lincoln:

  We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled i

• Abraham Lincoln:

  I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it

• Abraham Lincoln:

  Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down?

• Abraham Lincoln:

  'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at l

• Abraham Lincoln:

  A house divided against itself cannot stand.

• Abraham Lincoln:

  A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.