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To: mr.mark who wrote (5443)2/21/2000 3:03:00 PM
From: Volsi Mimir  Respond to of 13018
 
Two quotes from Abraham Lincoln on this, Presidents Day,
surveyed by historians and viewers of C-SPAN as the best.

historians
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viewers
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To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

and more apropos?

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong it's reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.

~Abe