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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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735 |
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AUTHOR:
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Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) |
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QUOTATION:
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While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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President ABRAHAM LINCOLN, first inaugural address (final text), March 4, 1861.—The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler, vol. 4, p. 270 (1953). |
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SUBJECTS:
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Government |
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