Quote by Abraham Lincoln
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he sh

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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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. – Abraham Lincoln

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With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nations wounds. – Abraham Lincoln

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I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. – Abraham Lincoln

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Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head. – Euripides

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To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man. – Michael Servetus

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We often give our enemies the means to our own destruction. – Aesop

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It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow… that are the aftermath of war. – Herbert Hoover

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