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A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability.

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Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

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You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

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I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.

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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded.

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

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There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest. I say vague, because when we consider to what extent confidence and honors are reposed in and conferred upon lawyers by the people, it appears improbable that their impression of dishonesty is very distinct and vivid. Yet the impression is common, almost universal.

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Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.

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That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thence forward, and forever free.

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I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main matterfor that I have determined for myself.

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I cannot imagine anyone looking at the sky and denying God.

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If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

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During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel of it to each of my other generals!

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Politics, as a trade, finds most and leaves nearly all dishonest.

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My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

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Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

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A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands.

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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

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Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

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We cannot but believe that He who made the world still governs it.

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