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The important thing today is not what we say of Lincoln but what L

The important thing today is not what we say of Lincoln but what Lincoln would say of us if he were here in this hour and could note the drift and tendency in American life and American politics. – Stephen Samuel Wise

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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence. – George Washington

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How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. – Thomas Jefferson

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I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. – James Madison, speech, Virginia Convention, 1788

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