"A nation may be said to consist..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability.
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“Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done again.”
“You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.”
“Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.”
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“A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
“Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.”
“Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.”
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“I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.”
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“White people whom I have met, who have accepted Islam, they don't regard themselves as white but as human beings.”