Quote by Abraham Lincoln
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To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization. – Abraham Lincoln

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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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I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal. – Abraham Lincoln

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Speak not too well of one who scarce will know himself transfigured in its roseate glow; Say kindly of him what is, chiefly, true, remembering always he belongs to you; Deal with him as a truant, if you will, But claim him, keep him, call him brother still! – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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You cant hold a man down without staying down with him. – Booker T. Washington

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Brotherhood is the very price and condition of mans survival. – Carlos Pena Romulo

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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out. – George Bernard Shaw

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Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think its an assault on citizenship. – Mark Steyn

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When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesnt work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. – Emo Philips

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The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary. – Charles Caleb Colton

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The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary. – Francis W. Newman

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