Abraham Lincoln Quotes on Legacy
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May our children and our children's children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have cause yet to rejoice under those glorious institutions bequeathed us by Washington and his compeers.
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
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Now let it be written in history and on Mr. Lincoln's tombstone: 'He died an unbeliever.'
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If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
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There lies the most perfect ruler of men the world has ever seen. Now he belongs to the ages.
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The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.