A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.

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Abraham Lincoln
16th US president (1809-1865). A self-educated frontier lawyer who became the first Republican president, led the Union through civil war, issued the Emancipation Proclamation, and was assassinated in 1865.
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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
-- Nelson Mandela
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
-- Abraham Lincoln
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Our lives and blood for our King Maria Theresa!
-- Maria Theresa of Austria
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever.
-- Thomas Jefferson
The mercy of late birth.
-- Helmut Kohl