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The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was not made to conceal or destroy the apple, but to adorn and preserve it. The picture was made for the apple-not the apple for the picture.

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And while it has not pleased the Almighty to bless us with a return of peace, we can but press on, guided by the best light He gives, trusting that in His own good time, and wise way, all will yet be well.

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The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle.

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There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.

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A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

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All creation is a mine, and every man a miner.

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The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil.

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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

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I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us.

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That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

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All that harms labor is treason to America.

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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

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I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this his almost chosen people.

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If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

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As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.

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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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Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.

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Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.

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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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You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid.

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