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Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

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The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This, say its advocates, is free labor-the just and generous, and prosperous system, which opens the way for all-gives hope to all, and energy, and progress, and improvement of condition to all.

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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

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The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.

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A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad.

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No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them; but in this case, favour to me,would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it.

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I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.

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A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... He will assume control of your cities, states and nations. He is going to move in and take over your churches, schools, universities, and corporations ... The fate of humanity is in his hands.

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The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

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It's bad. It's damned bad.

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When met with a problem I always ask myself what is the right thing to do and then I do it.

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I hold the value of life is to improve one's condition. Whatever is calculated to advance the condition of the honest, struggling laboring man, so far as my judgment will enable me to judge of a correct thing, I am for that thing.

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Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.

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The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

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Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

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In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred, of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveries. Of these were the art of writing and of printing - the discovery of America, and the introduction of Patent-laws. The date of the first ... is unknown; but it certainly was as much as fifteen hundred years before the Christian era; the second-printing-came in 1436, or nearly three thousand years after the first. The others followed more rapidly - the discovery of America in 1492, and the first patent laws in 1624.

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The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.

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I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.

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I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling.

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