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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.
“He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.”
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“I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.”
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“Before the Civil War, Mark Twain would write, “there was nothing resembling a worship of money or its possessor” among Americans. But the politicians and financiers “reversed the commercial morals of the United States. . . . The people had desired money before his day,” but now they had been “taught . . . to fall down and worship it.”2”
― Reconstruction: A Concise History
― Reconstruction: A Concise History
“Lincoln asked. “Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never!…I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us….If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”
― And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
― And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
“The world is full of illegitimate children. The world is full of folk whose taste was educated in the gutter. The world is full of people born hating and despising their fellows. To these I love to say: See this man. He was one of you and yet he became Abraham Lincoln.”
― And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
― And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
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