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When you make it to the top, turn and reach down for the person behind you.

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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.

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The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence; never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

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When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

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As the problems are new, we must disenthrall ourselves from the past.

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It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.

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If the American people could learn what I know of the fierce hatred of the priests of Rome against our institutions, our schools, our most sacred rights, and our so dearly bought liberties, they would drive them out as traitors.

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I soon began to dream. ... I heard subdued sobs, as if a number of people were weeping. ... I left my bed and wandered downstairs. ... There I met with a sickening surprise. Before me was a catafalque, on which rested a corpse wrapped in funeral vestments. Around it were stationed soldiers who were acting as guards; and there was a throng of people, gazing mournfully upon the corpse, whose face was covered, others weeping pitifully. 'Who is dead in the White House?' I demanded of one of the soldiers, 'The President,' was his answer; 'he was killed by an assassin.''

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With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.

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In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

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Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered.

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Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

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I never tire of reading Tom Paine.

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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

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I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence, I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.

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No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.

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If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die.

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