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Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality. ↗

— 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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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people. ↗

— 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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The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use. ↗

— 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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To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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