If you don't want to use the army, I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully, A. Lincoln.
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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 in their separate and individual capacities. In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought n.Abraham Lincoln
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong it's reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
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The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle
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Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
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We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.
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Gentlemen, why don't you laugh With the fearful strain that is upon me night and day, if I did not laugh, I should die. You need this medicine as much a I do.
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