A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability.
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Die when I may, I want it said of me that I plucked a weed and planted a flower where ever I thought a flower would grow.Abraham Lincoln
The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose.
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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. Other means may succeed this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just a way which, if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless.
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Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers but if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
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