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Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

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The man who stands by and says nothing, when the peril of his government is discussed, can not be misunderstood. If not hindered, he is sure to help the enemy.

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

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I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war.

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The foregoing history may not be precisely accurate in every particular; but I am sure it is sufficiently so, for all the uses I shall attempt to make of it, and in it, we have before us, the chief material enabling us to correctly judge whether the repeal of the Missouri Compromise is right or wrong.

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If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.

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A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

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We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.

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No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them; but in this case, favour to me,would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it.

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You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

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I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.

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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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The Almighty has His own purposes.

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You think slavery is right and ought to be extended; while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.

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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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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

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We believe that the spreading out and perpetuity of the institution of slavery impairs the general welfare. We believe - nay, we know, that that is the only thing that has ever threatened the perpetuity of the Union itself.

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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

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One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.

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