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I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the sternest necessity can ever justify it. A government had better go to the extreme of toleration, than to do aught that could be construed into an interference with, or to jeopardize in any degree, the common rights of its citizens.

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Towering genius distains a beaten path.

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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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Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.

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I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything?

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Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly, or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or with them, about their slaves? If they do, I wish to assure you, as once a friend, and still, I hope, not an enemy, that there is no cause for such fears.

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I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag.

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Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.

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No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

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I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.

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I can hardly believe that the South and North can live in peace, unless we can get rid of the negroes ... I believe that it would be better to export them all to some fertile country with a good climate, which they could have to themselves.

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

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Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.

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Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.

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We cannot but believe that He who made the world still governs it.

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All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.

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There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.

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If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.

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I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

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