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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

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And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.

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There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races... A separation of the races is the only perfect preventive of amalgamation, but as an immediate separation is impossible, the next best thing is to keep them apart where they are not already together. If white and black people never get together in Kansas, they will never mix blood in Kansas...

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Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

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We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

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You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

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We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.

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With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.

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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

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Talk to the jury as though your client's fate depends on every word you utter.

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No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

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Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.

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I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war.

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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

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When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism.

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Public opinion in this country is everything.

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My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

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We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

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