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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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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

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Achievement has no color

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Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered.

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But the proclamation, as law, either is valid, or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If it is valid, it can not be retracted, any more than the dead can be brought to life.

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We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

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Young man, if God gives me four years more to rule this country, I believe it will become what it ought to be-what its Divine Author intended it to be-no longer one vast plantation for breeding human beings for the purpose of lust and bondage. But it will become a new Valley of Jehoshaphat, where all the nations of the earth will assemble together under one flag, worshipping a common God, and they will celebrate the resurrection of human freedom.

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If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this.

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Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?], any man might instantly use what another had invented; so that the inventor had no special advantage from his own invention. The patent system changed this; secured to the inventor, for a limited time, the exclusive use of his invention; and thereby added the fuel of interest to the fire of genius, in the discovery and production of new and useful things.

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I will either be America's greatest president or its last.

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Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.

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in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

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Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.

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Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.

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Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.

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Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.

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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

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Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of our great prosperity. There is something back of these, entwining itself more closely about the human heart. That something, is the principle of "Liberty to all" the principle that clears the path for all-gives hope to all-and, by consequence, enterprize [sic], and industry to all.

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Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privileges and positions. The present moment finds me at the White House, yet there is as good a chance for your children as there was for my father's.

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