I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do.
Abraham LincolnIt is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.
Abraham LincolnI can not but hate the prospect of slavery's expansion. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world-enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites-causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity.
Abraham Lincoln