Smiley writes that upon meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Toms Cabin, ... So this is the little lady who made this big war.
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The mystic cords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone throughout the landAbraham 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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It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
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To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.
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I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.
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