I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
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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 choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.Abraham Lincoln
Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.
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I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office,
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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
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As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.
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