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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

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Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln is renowned for his leadership during the American Civil War and his efforts to abolish slavery through the Emancipation Proclamation. His leadership and vision have made him one of the most admired and influential presidents in American history.

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Important principles may, and must, be inflexible....
True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety....
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth....
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience ...
In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, ...
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may...
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you ...
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that ...
The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declara...
I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others....

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The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists....
There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no mat...
A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad g...
We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation....
The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number of Americans dependent on government for their bas...
The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government....
You have to ask yourself seriously: does this government really want to do things or is it more interested in class struggle?...
We've listened to our businesses, and we know they want more tools online so they can do business faster - with less interaction with government....
I remember the day after the general election when Harold Wilson had lost, I remember quite clearly cycling from my house in Hutton along Long Ridings...
The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and comfort all the rebels of ...