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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 the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in the belief that it was in the course of ultimate extinction . . . . All I have asked or desired anywhere, is that it should be placed back again upon the basis that the Fathers of our government originally placed it upon.

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Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.

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I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.

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While we are grateful to all the brave men and officers for the events of the past few days, we should, above all, be very grateful to Almighty God, who gives us victory.

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I think I stand where that man stands.

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Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

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Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.

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If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions.

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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

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It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness.

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When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.'

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The Constitution is not a suicide pact.

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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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There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow.

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No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.

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I could not sleep when I got on the hunt for an idea, until I had caught it. This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck with me.

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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 cannot speak so confidently about the fighting qualities of the Eastern men, or what are called Yankees - not knowing myself particularly to whom the appellation belongs - but this I do know - if the Southerners think that man for man they are better than our Illinois men, or western men generally, they will discover themselves in a grievous mistake.

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When I lay down the reins of this administration, I want to have one friend left. And that friend is myself.

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