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It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness.

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God bless the Methodist Church - bless all the churches - and blessed be God, Who, in this our great trial, giveth us the churches.

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Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?

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Whether you look for the good or look for the bad in a person, you'll find it." A. Lincoln

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I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of God I shall continue to do so.

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Let none falter who thinks he is right, and we may succeed. But if, after all, we shall fail, be it so: we still shall have the proud consolation of saying to our consciences, and to the departed shade of our country's freedom, that the cause approved of our judgment and adored of our hearts, in disaster, in chains, in torture, in death, we never faltered in defending.

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You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak

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To lead, you must touch men's hearts.

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I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day.

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We believe that the spreading out and perpetuity of the institution of slavery impairs the general welfare. We believe - nay, we know, that that is the only thing that has ever threatened the perpetuity of the Union itself.

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I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.

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You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live.

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I always [or "often"] walk slowly, but I never walk backwards.

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Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.

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The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.

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A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.

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Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done again.

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The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

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In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.

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I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

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