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When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends.
Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men ✨ Abraham … ▶
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. ✨ Abraham Lincoln (2008). Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition), p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com
If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already. ✨ Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quot … ▶
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?], any man might instantly use what another had invented; so … ▶

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