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Abraham Lincoln

"The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done but cannot do at all or cannot so well do for themselves in their separate and individual capacities."

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"The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done but cannot do at all or cannot so well do for themselves in their separate and individual capacities."

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"When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another - except brute, physical force."

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"Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced."

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"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet."

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"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government."

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"There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties."

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"Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power."

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"Political or military commentators, like astrologers, can survive almost any mistake, because their more devoted followers do not look to them for an appraisal of the facts but for the stimulation of nationalistic loyalties."

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"No political body is sacred, sustainable or under protection, which allows the exploitation of its weakest citizens."

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"The more sects we have the better. They are all getting somebody in (to the Church) that the others could not: and even with the numerous divisions we are all doing tolerably well."
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"God must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them."
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"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."
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"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."
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"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee."
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free."
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"Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself."
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"That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
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"Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties."
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"My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read."
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