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The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.

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The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.

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Let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty.

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It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

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I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams."

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Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase the demand for and wages of white labor.

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I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.

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When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

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If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.

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My God! My God! What will the country say?

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All I have learned, I learned from books.

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It is not our frowning battlements...or the strength our gallant and disciplined army? These are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land... Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.

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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

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There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

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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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I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us.

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In using the strong hand, as now compelled to do, the government has a difficult duty to perform. At the very best, it will by turns do both too little and too much. It can properly have no motive of revenge, no purpose to punish merely for punishment's sake. While we must, by all available means, prevent the overthrow of the government, we should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.

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The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

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If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

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