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Did Stanton say I was a damned fool? Then I dare say I must be one, for Stanton is generally right and he always says what he means.

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An allusion has been made to the Homestead Law. I think it worthy of consideration, and that the wild lands of the country should be distributed so that every man should have the means and opportunity of benefitting his condition.

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It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, "You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it."

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Nothing is stronger than gentleness.

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If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.

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

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A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.

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Some day I shall be President.

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I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

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Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.

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

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I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better, it appears to me.

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Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

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I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed.

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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

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I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms, by no means excluding females.

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I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.

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And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.

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Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.

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