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Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.

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You can't help the poor by being one of them.

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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

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Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away.

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The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful.

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I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views.

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Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

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Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

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The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities.

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No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. .. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions.

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Care for him who shall have borne the battle

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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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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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It is not our frowning battlements...or the strength our gallant and disciplined army? These are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land... Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.

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President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an associate. "You should try to destroy them." "Am I not destroying my enemies," Lincoln gently replied, "when I make them my friends?"

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And you are entirely free from head-ache? That is good -- good -- considering it is the first spring you have been free from it since we were acquainted. I am afraid you will get so well, and fat, and young, as to be wanting to marry again.

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I trust that as He shall further open the way, I will be ready to walk therein, relying on His help and trusting in His goodness and wisdom.

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My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.

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

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

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