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Care for him who shall have borne the battle

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Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.

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An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.

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Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease.

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While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

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If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.

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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

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I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.

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...I do not mean to say that this general government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs in the world; but I do think that it is charged with the duty of preventing and redressing all wrongs which are wrongs to itself.

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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

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Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".

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This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.

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When you make it to the top, turn and reach down for the person behind you.

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His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.

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Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men

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We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

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If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.

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Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

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Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

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But I must add that the U.S. government must not, as by this order, undertake to run the churches. When an individual, in a church or out of it, becomes dangerous to the public interest, he must be checked; but let the churches, as such take care of themselves. It will not do for the U.S. to appoint Trustees, Supervisors, or other agents for the churches.

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