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The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.

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Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.

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The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This, say its advocates, is free labor-the just and generous, and prosperous system, which opens the way for all-gives hope to all, and energy, and progress, and improvement of condition to all.

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I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

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As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

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People are just as happy as they choose to be.

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While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

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I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.

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War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.

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I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it.

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No State, upon it own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally nothing. I therefore consider that the Union is unbroken. There needs to be no bloodshed or violence; and there shall be none, unless forced upon the national authority.

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Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.

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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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What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

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Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.

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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

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You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.

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While I have often said that all men out to be free, yet I would allow those colored persons to be slaves who want to be; and next to them those white persons who argue in favor of making other people slaves. I am in favor of giving an opportunity to such white men to try it on for themselves.

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