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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

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I certainly know that if the war fails, the administration fails, and that I will be blamed for it, whether I deserve it or not. And I ought to be blamed, if I could do better. You think I could do better; therefore you blame me already. I think I could not do better; therefore I blame you for blaming me.

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If you love something, set it free.

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You may have a wen or a cancer upon your person and not be able to cut it out lest you bleed to death; but surely it is no way tocure it, to engraft it and spread it over your whole body.

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you can't escape tomorrow's responsibilities by evading it today

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I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.

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To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

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While I have often said that all men out to be free, yet I would allow those colored persons to be slaves who want to be; and next to them those white persons who argue in favor of making other people slaves. I am in favor of giving an opportunity to such white men to try it on for themselves.

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Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow.

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You cannot fail unless you quit.

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As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

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if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

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We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us; and though with ourlimited understandings we may not be able to comprehend it, yet we cannot but believe, that he who made the world still governs it.

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I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent the Divine will. ... I hope it will not be irreverent for me to say that if it is probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me... These are not, however, the days of miracles ... I must study the plain physical facts of the case, ascertain what is possible, and learn what appears to be wise and right.

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With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have a great respect for the semicolin; it's a useful little chap

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I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

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The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.

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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

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His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.

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I turn, then, and look to the American people and to that God who has never forsaken them.

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