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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded.

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You think slavery is right and ought to be extended; while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.

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Labor is the true standard of value.

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What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

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Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.

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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

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Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

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I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.

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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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Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.

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When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing.

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Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.

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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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The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes.

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My policy is to have no policy.

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It may be affirmed, without extravagance, that the free institutions we enjoy, have developed the powers, and improved the condition, of our whole people, beyond any example in the world.

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No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own - my creators - not man's. I shall never sink the rights of mankind to the malice, wrong, or avarice of another's wishes, though those wishes come to me in the relation of client and attorney.

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I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

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It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.

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Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

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