"I hear you have abolitionists here. We..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day.
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“Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow to a happy married life that there has been since that terrible thing called the Higher Education of Women was invented.”
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“The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression.”