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The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part of thee.

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I destroy my enemy if I make him my friend.

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I always [or "often"] walk slowly, but I never walk backwards.

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Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.

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I turn, then, and look to the American people and to that God who has never forsaken them.

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Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?

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no man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self control, yield to larger things to which you show no more than equal rights, and yield to lesser ones though clearly your own, better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right, not even killing the dog, will cure the bite

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You know you've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution

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But for that Book, we could not know right from wrong.

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Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert? I think that in such a cse to silence the agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional but withal a great mercy.

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Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

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To read in the Bible, as the word of God himself, that "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, ["] and to preach there-from that, "In the sweat of other mans faces shalt thou eat bread," to my mind can scarcely be reconciled with honest sincerity.

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I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day.

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To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.

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Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.

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Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

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That I am not a member of any Christian Church, is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures; and I have never spoken with intentional disrepect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...

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We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!

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Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.

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