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I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

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I always remember the prayers of my mother as they always forever.

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But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.

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When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

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You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed.

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I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was'.

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Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, . . . nor of torture to extort confessions.

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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

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[If not re-elected in 1864] then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards.

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The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

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What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.

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Nothing will divert me from my purpose.

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One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.

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I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

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Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.

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I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

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The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.

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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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Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

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I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the more numerous, and as you added that those were the sentiments of the gentlemen present, representing not only the working class, but citizens of other callings than those of the mechanic, I am happy to concur with you in these sentiments, not only of the native born citizens, but also of the Germans and foreigners from other countries.

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