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When the white man governs himself, that is self-government but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism.

Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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