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All the armies of Europe combined could not by force make a track upon the Blue Ridge, or take a drink from the Ohio. If we are to be destroyed, we must do it ourselves.

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Through their deeds, the dead of battle have spoken more eloquently for themselves than any of the living ever could. But we can only honor them by rededicating ourselves to the cause for which they gave a last full measure of devotion.

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Nothing is stronger than gentleness.

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If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

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

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The worst thing you can do for anyone you care about is anything that they can do on their own.

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So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.

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When you make it to the top, turn and reach down for the person behind you.

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By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a blind horse upon a tread-mill, is a perfect illustration of what a laborer should be -- all the better for being blind, that he could not tread out of place, or kick understandingly. According to that theory, the education of laborers, is not only useless, but pernicious, and dangerous. In fact, it is, in some sort, deemed a misfortune that laborers should have heads at all.

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If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this.

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When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing.

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The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: 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. This our convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions, and they resolved to so frame the constitution that no man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.

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None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing

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Relying, as I do, upon the Almighty Power, and encouraged as I am by these resolutions which you have just read, with the support which I receive from Christian men, I shall not hesitate to use all the means at my control to secure the termination of this rebellion, and will hope for success.

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You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.

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No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

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I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.

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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

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You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time.

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