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Ugh, once was enough for me. Remembering it is important, reliving it is too much.

This quote from Lincoln is pretty pertinent to some things that have happened since:

> At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Commonly reported as "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves"



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