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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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With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. ↗

— 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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Public opinion in this country is everything. ↗

— 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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.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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Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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