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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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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

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The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.

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Nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face, nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting out.

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Senator Douglas holds, we know, that a man may rightfully be wiser today than he was yesterday - that he may rightfully change when he finds himself wrong. But can we, for that reason, run ahead, and infer that he will make any particular change, of which he, himself, has given no intimation?

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You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you; but, no matter. Fight you, then exclusively to save the Union.

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It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And, when they do, they will as naturally seek the gratification of their ruling passion, as others have so done before them.

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People are just as happy as they choose to be.

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Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.

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Nothing is stronger than gentleness.

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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

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You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak

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

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He who does something at the head of one Regiment, will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred.

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A lawyer's time and advice are his(her) stock in trade.

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Achievement has no color

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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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The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle.

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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

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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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