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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

#belongs #constitutional #constitutional right #country #exercise

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#impossible #make #makes #molds #possible

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

— Abraham Lincoln

#beaten path #genius #hitherto #path #regions

Knavery and flattery are blood relations. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#flattery #knavery #relations

Spending and tax cut decisions must be both fiscally responsible and fair to our working families. I believe that fiscal responsibility is the way to create prosperity for America and secure the retirement of America's seniors. ↗

— Blanche Lincoln

#believe #both #create #cut #decisions

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#accepting #back #demanding #even #expecting

The United Nations remains our most important global actor. These days we are continuously reminded of the enormous responsibility of the Security Council to uphold international peace and stability. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#continuously #council #days #enormous #global

Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#borders #challenges #creates #globalisation #instruments

One of the gaps in our international development efforts is the provision of global public goods - that is, goods or conditions we need that no individual or country can secure on their own, such as halting global warming, financial stability and peace and security. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#country #development #efforts #financial #financial stability

The developing countries must be able to take a more active part in trade negotiations, through technical assistance and support from the developed countries. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#active #assistance #countries #developed #developed countries