Lincoln

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“Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species, might have shared with me in the elevation, I would rather stand on that eminence, than wear the richest crown that ever pressed a monarch’s brow.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“To [secure] to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)