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I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his followers, the papists, so long as they tell me, through all their councils, theologians, and canon laws that their conscience orders them to burn my wife, strangle my children, and cut my throat when they find their opportunity.

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As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government.

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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

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Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

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

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The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.

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Whether you look for the good or look for the bad in a person, you'll find it." A. Lincoln

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I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

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I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of.

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My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I...fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out.

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I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.

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As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.

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I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.

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Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".

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Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged.

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History is not history unless it is the truth.

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Why don't you laugh? If I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do.

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There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow.

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As the problems are new, we must disenthrall ourselves from the past.

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So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.

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