When the white man governs himself, that is self-government but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self government - that is despotism. (Abraham Lincoln)

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self government - that is despotism.

Abraham Lincoln

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