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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. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time." ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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