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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#act #anew #case #difficulty #dogmas

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#escape #responsibility #today #tomorrow #you

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#impossible #make #makes #molds #possible

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

#affairs #conduct #desire #down #earth

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

#armies #asia #blue #chest #combined

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#any #attacks #business #closed #i

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#chew #choke #grip #hold #much

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#aroused #compromise #done #i #interest

A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access. ↗

— Blanche Lincoln

#america #care #cheaper #common #costs

If the police need more help to do their work, I will not hesitate in granting it to them. ↗

— Theresa May

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