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The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
Abraham Lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
16Th U.S. President
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We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose. If we fail, it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.
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I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.
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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of another man, neither that other man nor anybody else has a right to object.
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When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing.
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The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.
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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.
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