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I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.

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None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing

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He who represents himself has a fool for a client

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I can not but hate the prospect of slavery's expansion. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world-enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites-causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity.

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I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.

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The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful.

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I am a patient man--always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance, and also to give ample time for repentance. Still, I must save this government, if possible. What I cannot do, of course I will not do, but it may as well be understood, once for all, that I shall not surrender this game leaving any available card unplayed.

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Nevertheless, amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance on God, knowing that all would go well, and that He would decide for the right.

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If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions.

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I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the way for our doing it.

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

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The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

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Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No community where every member possesses the art can ever be the victim of oppression in any of its forms.

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Peace will come soon to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure their cases and pay the costs.

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

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My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

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One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.

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Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert? I think that in such a cse to silence the agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional but withal a great mercy.

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