All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treas…

Abraham Lincoln
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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. ✨ Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). Lincoln on Democracy, p.16, Fordham Univ Press
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