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Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief.

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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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When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.'

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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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When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.

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A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

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And I am glad to know that there is a system of labor - where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world.

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You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

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Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.

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I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.

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The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

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I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was'.

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I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

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Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.

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Too big to cry too young to laugh.

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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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He who does something at the head of one Regiment, will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred.

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I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.

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Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.

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