“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.”
— Abraham Lincoln
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“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”
— Abraham Lincoln
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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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“Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.”
— Abraham Lincoln
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“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
— Abraham Lincoln
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“No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.”
— Abraham Lincoln
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“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
— Abraham Lincoln
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“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.”
— Abraham Lincoln
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“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”
— Abraham Lincoln
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“Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure.”
— Abraham Lincoln
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“If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.”
— Abraham Lincoln
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