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No State, upon it own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally nothing. I therefore consider that the Union is unbroken. There needs to be no bloodshed or violence; and there shall be none, unless forced upon the national authority.

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Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.

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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

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Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

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The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

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It is most cheering and encouraging for me to know that in the efforts which I have made and am making for the restoration of a righteous peace to our country, I am upheld and sustained by the good wishes and prayers of God's people. No one is more deeply than myself aware that without His favor our highest wisdom is but as foolishness and that our most strenuous efforts would avail nothing in the shadow of His displeasure.

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The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.

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I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

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Elections belong to the people. It's their decision.

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If you love something, set it free.

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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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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

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The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

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How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.

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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

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You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry

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If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.

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The Constitution is not a suicide pact.

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I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.

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What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

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