"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty."
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Abraham Lincoln, Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865, p. 138.
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