Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good. - Abraham Lincoln

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The roughest thing was learning the realities of the world at such a young age. I was 10 or 11, going to church, hearing the adults standing on the podium talking about world affairs, about history, about war, and how America was founded.

Abraham Lincoln

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

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It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And, when they do, they will as naturally seek the gratification of their ruling passion, as others have so done before them.

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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

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Cling to liberty and right; battle fro them; leed for them; die for them, if need be; and have confidence in God.

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Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.

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Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase the demand for and wages of white labor.

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