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Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

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Twenty-two years ago Judge [then-Senator Stephen] Douglas and I first became acquainted. We were both young then; he a trifle younger than I. Even then, we were both ambitious; I, perhaps, quite as much so as he. With me, the race of ambition has been a failure--a flat failure; with him it has been one of splendid success.

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Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief.

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I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

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I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.

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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

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The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

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The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities.

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This nation under God

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What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.

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Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

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We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat it as a wrong in the territories, where our votes will reach it.

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The strength of a nation lies in the homes of its people.

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You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time.

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I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone.

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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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So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

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I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

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