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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, .
  ..to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations....
• We know nothing of what will happen in the future, but by the analogy of experience.
  -- Abraham Lincol...
• Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it.
  -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) -- Address, New York City, Feb. 21, 1859...
• In my view, God educates us through our deceptions and mistakes, in order to make us understand at last that we ought to believe only in Him, and not in man.
• We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.
  -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)...
• The world will little note nor long remember what we say here.
  -- Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Addre...
• The simple rights, the civil liberties from generations of struggle must not be just fine words for patriotic holidays, words we subvert on weekdays, but living, honored rules of conduct amongst us.
  ..I'm glad the American Civil Liberties Union gets indignant, and I hope this will always be so....
• I find it interesting how we get carried away by the dogma a-la-mode.
  -- Lincoln Diaz-Ballart, US representative from Florida...
• We cannot be free men if this is, by our national crisis, to be a land of slavery.
  Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. -- -Abraham Lincol...