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If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

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I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

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Public opinion in this country is everything.

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I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

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I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and perhaps to liberty itself (paradox though it may seem) to let the slavery of the other states alone; while, on the other hand, I hold it to be equally clear, that we should never knowingly lend ourselves directly or indirectly, to prevent that slavery from dying a natural death--to find new places for it to live in, when it can no longer exist in the old.

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You have confidence in yourself, which is valuable, if not an indispensable quality.

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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

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The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

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Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest. Among the most satisfying proofs of this conviction is the hearty devotion everywhere exhibited by our schools and colleges to the national cause.

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A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.

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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

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I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

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Prosperity is the fruit of labor. It begins with saving money.

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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

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There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite.

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Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.

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Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

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There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow.

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