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We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.

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If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

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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 wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.

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Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.

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I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

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The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here so nobly advanced.

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Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.

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What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.

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confused and Stunned, like a duck hit on the head.

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Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.

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I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.

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I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.

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If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already. It is but a small matter whether you read with anyone or not. I did not read with anyone. Get the books, and read and study them till you understand them in their principal features; and that is the main thing. It is of no consequence to be in a large town while you are reading. I read at New Salem, which never had three hundred people living in it. The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places.

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The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.

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The will of God prevails.

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President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an associate. "You should try to destroy them." "Am I not destroying my enemies," Lincoln gently replied, "when I make them my friends?"

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We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.

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Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.

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Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

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