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Quote from Abraham Lincoln,

"Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except Negroes and foreigners and Catholics.' When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy hypocrisy."



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Abraham Lincoln (more quotes by Abraham Lincoln or books by/about Abraham Lincoln)


(1809-1865) 16th US President

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Equality, Freedom, Hypocrisy, Liberty, Oppression, President

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