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The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

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I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.

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I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

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People are just as happy as they choose to be.

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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 Lord spared the fitten and the rest he seen fitten to die.

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As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.

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Faith is not believing that God can, but that God will.

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I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war.

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I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better, it appears to me.

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I will learn, the opportunity will come.

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The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

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Nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face, nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting out.

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I am for the people of the whole nation doing just as they please in all matters which concern the whole nation; for that of each part doing just as they choose in all matters which concern no other part; and for each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.

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You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.

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If you have never failed you have never lived.

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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

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If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

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We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There is no permanent class of hired laborers amongst us. Twenty-five years ago, I was a hired laborer. The hired laborer of yesterday, labors on his own account today; and will hire others to labor for him tomorrow.

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While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election; and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for having directed my countrymen to a right conclusion, as I think, for their own good, it adds nothing to my satisfaction that any other man may be disappointed or pained by the result.

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