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

— Abraham Lincoln

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew. ↗

— 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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.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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If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. ↗

— 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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