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To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

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A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the money.

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And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.

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Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.

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My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

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The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything.

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Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.

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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

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The enthusiastic uprising of the people in our cause, is our great reliance; and we can not safely give it any check, even thoughit overflows, and runs in channels not laid down in any chart.

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If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.

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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

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And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labour has produced them. But it has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have laboured, and others have, without labour, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To [secure] to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government.

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The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.

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Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

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What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.

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The time has come when I am for everybody fighting the rebels. Let Indians fight them; let the Negroes fight them; and if you have got any strong-legged jackasses in Iwoa that can kick rebels to death, they have my hearty consent.

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Too big to cry too young to laugh.

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

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I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken; and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.

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