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We must have black troops, and a limitless number of them too-paid and treated like their white brothers.


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ABRAHAM LINCOLN I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree i...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Everybody likes a compliment.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own exis...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to
succeed, but I am bound to...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire a...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is w...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelit...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safe...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN All I have learned, I learned from books.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN No man is poor who has a Godly mother.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a ca...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Achievement has no color
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Tell me what brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other gen...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The br...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I cannot imaging anyone looking at the sky and denying God.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build o...
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