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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

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A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be.

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If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year there could scarcely be one human being left alive--all would have perished by want of subsistence.

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We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

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I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me

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You say men ought to be hung for the way they are executing the law; I say the way it is being executed is quite as good as any of its antecedents. It is being executed in the precise way which was intended from the first, else why does no Nebraska man express astonishment or condemnation? Poor Reeder is the only public man who has been silly enough to believe that anything like fairness was ever intended, and he has been bravely undeceived.

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Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

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But I must add that the U.S. government must not, as by this order, undertake to run the churches. When an individual, in a church or out of it, becomes dangerous to the public interest, he must be checked; but let the churches, as such take care of themselves. It will not do for the U.S. to appoint Trustees, Supervisors, or other agents for the churches.

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Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

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Friendship is the start for what you call love.

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Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.

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The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.

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With this honor devolves upon you also a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so under God it will sustain you.

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You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid.

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With the Catching Ends the Pleasure of the Chase.

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The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.

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Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent.

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To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

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I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.

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