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I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

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I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks.... My father ... removed from Kentucky to ... Indiana, in my eighth year.... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up.... Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher ... but that was all.

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Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.

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It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved.

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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

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Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.

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Received as I am by the members of a legislature the majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments, I trust that I may have their assistance in piloting the ship of state through this voyage, surrounded by perils as it is; for if it should suffer wreck now, there will be no pilot ever needed for another voyage.

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But the proclamation, as law, either is valid, or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If it is valid, it can not be retracted, any more than the dead can be brought to life.

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In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in the belief that it was in the course of ultimate extinction . . . . All I have asked or desired anywhere, is that it should be placed back again upon the basis that the Fathers of our government originally placed it upon.

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My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.

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If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

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We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

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The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.

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A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be.

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In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

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The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

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Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

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

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As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and Laws, let every American pledge his life, his property, and his sacred honor;-let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty.

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