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None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing

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Nothing is stronger than gentleness.

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Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the first only is meritorious; and to it all the products of labour rightfully belong; but the two latter, while they exist, are heavy pensioners upon the first, robbing it of a large portion of it's just rights. The only remedy for this is to, as far as possible, drive useless labour and idleness out of existence.

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Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a personal friend of mine, wouldtell him that you have reason to believe he is mistaken.

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Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.

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What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

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Let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty.

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We will make converts day by day; we will grow strong by the violence and injustice of our adversaries. And, unless truth be a mockery and justice a hollow lie, we will be in the majority after a while.

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An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.

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This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.

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Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung

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With this honor devolves upon you also a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so under God it will sustain you.

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I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop

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you can't escape tomorrow's responsibilities by evading it today

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Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

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I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.

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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

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It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.

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Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in Primmers, spelling books, and in Almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

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I can not but hate the prospect of slavery's expansion. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world-enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites-causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity.

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