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Quote by 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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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. – Abraham Lincoln

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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. – Abraham Lincoln

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I have no doubt that the government of this great nation will work with its people to lead New Orleans and the Gulf Coast back to an enlightened, proud, safe part of the world. – Harry Connick, Jr.

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Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two dont trust the third one – the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization. – Shimon Peres

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Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administrations first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government. – Eliot Spitzer

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There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter. – Guy Debord

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