Quote by Abraham Lincoln
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes libe

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors. – Abraham Lincoln

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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. – Abraham Lincoln

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Presidents Day
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In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. – Abraham Lincoln

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God
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Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance – these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. – Isaiah Berlin

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Men

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become. – Edmund Waller

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Men

A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position. – Oscar Wilde

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Men

Men shut their doors against a setting sun. – William Shakespeare

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Obviously an actor draws on his own experience. – Christopher Walken

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Experience

You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation. – Johnnetta Cole

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Self-Discovery

The love game is never called off on account of darkness. – Tom Masson

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Being in Love

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories. – Christopher Lasch

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Hope