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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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To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#bloody #bullets #give #necessary #only

Public opinion in this country is everything. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#everything #opinion #public #public opinion

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#best #best way #enforce #get #law

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

— 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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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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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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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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