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A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

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There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed.

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Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation.

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The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.

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If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.

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I never trusted a man who never smoked or drank.

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We shall meanly lose or nobly save the last hope of earth.

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I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

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President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an associate. "You should try to destroy them." "Am I not destroying my enemies," Lincoln gently replied, "when I make them my friends?"

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There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.

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Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.

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You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.

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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

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Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ... nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

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People are just as happy as they choose to be.

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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

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You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live.

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The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.

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

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But I must add that the U.S. government must not, as by this order, undertake to run the churches. When an individual, in a church or out of it, becomes dangerous to the public interest, he must be checked; but let the churches, as such take care of themselves. It will not do for the U.S. to appoint Trustees, Supervisors, or other agents for the churches.

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