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Our adversaries [ the Confederate States of America ] have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one penned by Jefferson, they omit the words "all men are created equal." Why? They have adopted a temporary national constitution, in the preamble of which, unlike our good old one, signed by Washington, they omit "We, the People," and substitute "We, the deputies of the sovereign and independent States." Why? Why this deliberate pressing out of view, the rights of men, and the authority of the people?

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A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

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Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.

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It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

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Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?], any man might instantly use what another had invented; so that the inventor had no special advantage from his own invention. The patent system changed this; secured to the inventor, for a limited time, the exclusive use of his invention; and thereby added the fuel of interest to the fire of genius, in the discovery and production of new and useful things.

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When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism.

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One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.

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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.

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History is not history unless it is the truth.

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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought

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If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.

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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

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If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you can not get along anywhere.

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I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone.

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I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

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To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.

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In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.

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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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Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.

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