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The Constitution is not a suicide pact.

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It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

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The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was not made to conceal or destroy the apple, but to adorn and preserve it. The picture was made for the apple-not the apple for the picture.

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

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We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat it as a wrong in the territories, where our votes will reach it.

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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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You are young, and I am older; You are hopeful, I am not- Enjoy life, ere it grow colder- Pluck the roses ere they rot.

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Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.

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We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.

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What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?

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But for that Book, we could not know right from wrong.

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The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.

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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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He who represents himself has a fool for a client

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No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.

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Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated.

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I have seen your despatch expressing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are. Neither am I willing. Hold on with a bull-dog gripe, and chew & choke, as much as possible.

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The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.

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We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

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