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Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this repu

Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity. – George Bancroft

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Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul. – George Bancroft

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Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible. – George Bancroft

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By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy. – George Bancroft

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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. – Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio speech, 26 October 1939

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Abraham Lincoln – the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War – was the true representative of this people, not only for his own generation, but for all time, because he was a man among men. – Theodore Roosevelt

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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace. – Ulysses S. Grant

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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is. – Thomas Jefferson

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