Abraham Lincoln | hope
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln | hope
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.
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Abraham Lincoln | history
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
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Abraham Lincoln | great
It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
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Abraham Lincoln | great
The assertion that ‘all men are created equal’ was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
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Abraham Lincoln | great
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
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Abraham Lincoln | great
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
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