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> [In using the strong hand, as now compelled to do, the government has a difficult duty to perform. At the very best, it will by turns do both too little and too much. It can properly have no motive of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/in-using-the-strong-hand-as-now-compelled-to-do-the-government-has-a/)

[Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/)

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> [I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It's not my purpose to punish it; it's my joy to cure it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-p-young/i-don-t-need-to-punish-people-for-sin-sin-is-its-own-punishment/)

[William P. Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-p-young/)

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