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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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Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, . . . nor of torture to extort confessions.

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We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose. If we fail, it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.

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I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.

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Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

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If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

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We will make converts day by day; we will grow strong by the violence and injustice of our adversaries. And, unless truth be a mockery and justice a hollow lie, we will be in the majority after a while.

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The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.

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I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

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When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest in ferreting out the questions to the bottom, love to dig up the question by the roots and hold it up and dry it before the fires of the mind.

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Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases.

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If there is no military need for the building, leave it alone, neither putting anyone in or out of it, except on finding some one preaching or practicing treason, in which case lay hands on him, just as if he were doing the same thing in any other building.

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Liquor may have its defenders, but it has no defense.

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Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

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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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If you love something, set it free.

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I am not an accomplished lawyer.

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The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything.

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All the armies of Europe combined could not by force make a track upon the Blue Ridge, or take a drink from the Ohio. If we are to be destroyed, we must do it ourselves.

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The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

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