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The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil.

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You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

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In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.

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A man's legs must be long enough to reach the ground.

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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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All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

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Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and confirm that you didn't do the assigned readings before the strategic planning retreat.

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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

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There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

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Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

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Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

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Negro equality, Fudge!! How long in the Government of a God great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagoguism as this?

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Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.

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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

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People are just as happy as they choose to be.

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Freedom is the natural condition of the human race, in which the Almighty intended men to live. Those who fight the purpose of the Almighty will not succeed. They always have been, they always will be beaten.

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Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.

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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

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The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party - and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose.

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But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only good thing which no man ever seeks the good of, for himself.

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