I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea … - Abraham Lincoln

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People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.

Abraham Lincoln

I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.

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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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