Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the
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I am simply unable to understand the value placed by so many people upon great wealth.
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If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
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