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History is not history unless it is the truth.

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People are just as happy as they choose to be.

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I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.

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The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.

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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 am busily engaged in study of the Bible.

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As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.

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It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.

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The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.

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I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

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Gratefully accepting the proffered honor, [to inscribe a new legal work to him] I give the leave, begging only that the inscription may be in modest terms, not representing me as a man of great learning, or a very extraordinary one in any respect.

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The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.

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Never change horses in midstream.

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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 am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

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It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

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Honor is better than honors.

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I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.

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The President to-night has a dream: - He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said: - "He is a very common-looking man". The President replied: - "The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them".

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As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.

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