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Quote of the day: 19 Jul 2008 – Abraham Lincoln

Posted by Edward Harrison on 19 July 2008 at 1:00 pm

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“The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves–in their separate, and individual capacities.”
-Abraham Lincoln

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