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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong. ↗

— 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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The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them. ↗

— 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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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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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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Important principles may, and must, be inflexible. ↗

— 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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