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So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

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I have really got it into my head to try to be United States Senator, and, if I could have your support, my chances would be reasonably good. But I know, and acknowledge, that you have as just claims to the place as I have; and therefore I cannot ask you to yield to me, if you are thinking of becoming a candidate, yourself. If, however, you are not, then I should like to be remembered affectionately by you; and also to have you make a mark for me with the Anti-Nebraska members down your way.

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Everybody likes a compliment.

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I am busily engaged in study of the Bible.

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Freedom is the natural condition of the human race, in which the Almighty intended men to live. Those who fight the purpose of the Almighty will not succeed. They always have been, they always will be beaten.

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There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed.

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I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

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I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.

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You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.

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Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.

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Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.

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I am slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned. My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch any thing on it and almost impossible after you get it there to rub it out.

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Negroes, like other people, act upon motives. Why should they do anything for us, if we will do nothing for them? If they stake their lives for us, they must be prompted by the strongest motive, even the promise of freedom. And the promise being made, must be kept.

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Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.

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My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

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The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

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The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.

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You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you; but, no matter. Fight you, then exclusively to save the Union.

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If we believe the Bible, we must accept the fact that, in the old days, God and his angels came to humans in their sleep and made themselves known in dreams.

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