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If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.

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I was born and have ever remaind [sic] in the most humble walks of life.

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An allusion has been made to the Homestead Law. I think it worthy of consideration, and that the wild lands of the country should be distributed so that every man should have the means and opportunity of benefitting his condition.

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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

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I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the sternest necessity can ever justify it. A government had better go to the extreme of toleration, than to do aught that could be construed into an interference with, or to jeopardize in any degree, the common rights of its citizens.

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The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.

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Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.

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If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

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My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.

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I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.

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Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.

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None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing

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What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.

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As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.

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Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of equal rights of menours began, by affirming those rights. They said, some men are too ignorant, and vicious, to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant, and vicious. We proposed to give all a chance; and we expected the weak to grow stronger, the ignorant wiser; and all better, and happier together.

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It's bad. It's damned bad.

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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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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

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Shall we stop this bleeding?

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That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now, is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed, and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all, to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

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