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Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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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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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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Important principles may, and must, be inflexible. ↗

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

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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.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