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Quote by Abraham Lincoln
There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have it

There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite. – Abraham Lincoln

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Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents… pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. – Abraham Lincoln

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Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail. – Abraham Lincoln

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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense… human rights invented America. – Jimmy Carter

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