05/03/1931
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"The whole of our governmental machinery was devised for the purpose that through ordered liberty we give incentive and equality of opportunity to every individual to rise to that highest achievement o..."
"Where people divest themselves of local government responsibilities they at once lay the foundation for the destruction of their liberties."
"Lincoln led in founding the Republican Party and he gloried in his party."
"No stronger statement has ever been made than that of Lincoln upon obedience to law as the very foundation of our Republic."