Abraham Lincoln

by Emily Sears | Nov 21, 2025

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It is therefore of immense importance to men to have fixed ideas about God, their souls, and their duties toward their Creator and their fellows, for doubt about these first principles would leave all their actions to chance and condemn them, more or less, to anarchy and impotence.

Alexis de Tocqueville,
The Republic of the United States of America and Its Political Institutions, 1838

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