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You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.

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His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.

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If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.

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Everybody likes compliment.

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I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question (slavery). They have constantly brought forward small cures for great sores-plasters too small to cover the wound. That is one reason that all settlements have proved so temporary-so evanescent.

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When I got him out he was near froze solid and shivering. He was shaking so hard that I wasted half a glass of whiskey trying to aim it for his mouth. Must have got enough of it into him, though, since it did seem to bring him back to life.

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This nation under God

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We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

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I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.

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I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet.

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A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

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

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We can succeed only by concert. It is not 'can any of us imagine better?, but 'can we all do better?

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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

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You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.

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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

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With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.

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President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an associate. "You should try to destroy them." "Am I not destroying my enemies," Lincoln gently replied, "when I make them my friends?"

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Fellow countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first...The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.

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If the union of these States, and the liberties of this people, shall be lost, it is but little to any one man of fifty-two yearsof age, but a great deal to the thirty millions of people who inhabit these United States, and to their posterity in all coming time.

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