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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. ↗

— 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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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

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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. ↗

— 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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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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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time." ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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