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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

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When met with a problem I always ask myself what is the right thing to do and then I do it.

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Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil].

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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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He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

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Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

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I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

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My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully.

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I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above.

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Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.

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I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

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I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

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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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When we were the political slaves of King George, and wanted to be free, we called the maxim that "all men are created equal" a self evident truth; but now when we have grown fat, and have lost all dread of being slaves ourselves, we have become so greedy to be masters that we call the same maxim "a self evident lie" The fourth of July has not quite dwindled away; it is still a great day-for burning fire-crackers!!!

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My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.

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Singular indeed the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise the voice of complaint.

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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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Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

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If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.

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Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest. Among the most satisfying proofs of this conviction is the hearty devotion everywhere exhibited by our schools and colleges to the national cause.

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