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In using the strong hand, as now compelled to do, the government has a difficult duty to perform. At the very best, it will by turns do both too little and too much. It can properly have no motive of revenge, no purpose to punish merely for punishment's sake. While we must, by all available means, prevent the overthrow of the government, we should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.

Abraham Lincoln / 16Th U.s. President
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In using the strong hand, as now compelled to do, the government has a difficult duty to perform. At the very best, it will by turns do both too little and too much. It can properly have no motive of revenge, no purpose to punish merely for punishment's sake. While we must, by all available means, prevent the overthrow of the government, we should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.

⇛ Abraham Lincoln (16Th U.s. President)

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I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

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Abraham Lincoln 16th U.S. President

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Abraham Lincoln 16th U.S. President

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Robert A. Heinlein Science Writer

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