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What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

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you can't escape tomorrow's responsibilities by evading it today

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I trust that as He shall further open the way, I will be ready to walk therein, relying on His help and trusting in His goodness and wisdom.

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Ready are we all to cry out and ascribe motives when our toes are pinched.

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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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In this troublesome world, we are never quite satisfied. When you were here, I thought you hindered me some in attending to business; but now, having nothing but business---no variety---it has grown exceedingly tasteless to me. I hate to sit down and direct documents, and I hate to stay in this old room by myself.

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The world shall know that I will keep my faith to friends and enemies, come what will.

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I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.

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We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

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I have a congenital aversion to failure.

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I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army.

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

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In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.

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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

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My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.

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The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also. With a reliance on Providence, all the more firm and earnest, let us proceed in the great task which events have devolved upon us.

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The master not only governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether different from those which he prescribes for himself. Allow ALL the governed an equal voice in the government, and that, and that only, is self-government.

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Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.

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I think I stand where that man stands.

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With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.

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