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Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.

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Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

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We better know there is a fire whence we see much smoke rising than we could know it by one or two witnesses swearing to it. The witnesses may commit perjury, but the smoke cannot.

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If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ‘all men are created equal,' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.

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I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses.

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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

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It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

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Our republican system was meant for a homogeneous people. As long as blacks continue to live with the whites they constitute a threat to the national life. Family life may also collapse and the increase of mixed breed bastards may some day challenge the supremacy of the white man.

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Do I not damage my enemies after i make them my close friends?

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in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

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We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

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This nation under God

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When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

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When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three.... The little advanceI now have upon this store of education, I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity.

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At the beginning of the war, and for some time, the use of colored troops was not contemplated; and how the change of purpose was wrought, I will not now take time to explain. Upon a clear conviction of duty I resolved to turn that element of strength to account; and I am responsible for it to the American people, to the christian world, to history, and on my final account to God.

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Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.

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I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position.

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Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

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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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I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above.

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