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You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live.

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Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

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Peace will come soon to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure their cases and pay the costs.

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The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here so nobly advanced.

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On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.

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. . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . .

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We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

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Don't be fooled. I kept all my workout clothes in that top hat.

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And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonnet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation.

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Don't kneel to me, that is not right. You must kneel to God only, and thank Him for the liberty you will hereafter enjoy.

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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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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

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I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination. I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing.

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I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.

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Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

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May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

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I shall always think of myself first and foremost... as a hunter.

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This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.

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I do not allow myself to suppose that either the convention or the League, have concluded to decide that I am either the greatest or the best man in America, but rather they have concluded it is not best to swap horses while crossing the river, and have further concluded that I am not so poor a horse that they might not make a botch of it in trying to swap.

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I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position.

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