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.
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Abraham Lincoln
16th US president (1809-1865). A self-educated frontier lawyer who became the first Republican president, led the Union through civil war, issued the Emancipation Proclamation, and was assassinated in 1865.
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