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If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
Abraham Lincolnverified·Address before the Washingtonian Temperance Society, Springfield, Illinois·February 22, 1842
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Free labour has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.
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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.
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Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people?
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With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in