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The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.

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Towering genius distains a beaten path.

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Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object

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I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was'.

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I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

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The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.

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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.

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In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he [the president] is the representative of the people. He is elected by them, as well as congress is. But can he, in the nature [of] things, know the wants of the people, as well as three hundred other men, coming from all the various localities of the nation? If so, where is the propriety of having a congress?

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And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.

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Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.

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What are you gonna do for a face when the baboon wants his ass back?

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I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us.

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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

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An allusion has been made to the Homestead Law. I think it worthy of consideration, and that the wild lands of the country should be distributed so that every man should have the means and opportunity of benefitting his condition.

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It's bad. It's damned bad.

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I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed.

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I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

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Nothing will divert me from my purpose.

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If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.

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If they do kill me, I shall never die another death.

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