The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
(Adress at a Sanity Fair, 1864)
Abraham Lincoln
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Whatever you are, be a good one. I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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