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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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