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Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.
Abraham Lincolnverified·Address before the Washingtonian Temperance Society, Springfield, Illinois·February 22, 1842
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Powerful people maneuver for position and worry endlessly about who is in and who is out, who is up and who is down, forgetting those people whose toil and sweat sends us here and pays our way.
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The love of protecting too often degenerates into downright tyranny.
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of nature for his rule.
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Denial of the right to experiment may be fraught with serious consequences to the nation.
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The world does not count races and nations that have nothing.
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the nature of the people is variable, and whilst it is easy to persuade them, it is difficult to fix them in that persuasion
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When this corrupting passion once takes possession of the human mind, like the love of gold it becomes insatiable.