I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the … - Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.

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It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And, when they do, they will as naturally seek the gratification of their ruling passion, as others have so done before them.

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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

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Cling to liberty and right; battle fro them; leed for them; die for them, if need be; and have confidence in God.

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Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.

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Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase the demand for and wages of white labor.

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