My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. Abraham Lincoln
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  4. The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

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