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The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.

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Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

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I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

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Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people back into the hateful paths of despotism. They knew the proneness of prosperity to breed tyrants, and they meant when such should re-appear in this fair land and commence their vocation they should find left for them at least one hard nut to crack.

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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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The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

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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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The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful.

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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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If we know where we are and something about how we got there, we might see where we are trending - and if the outcomes which lie naturally in our course are unacceptable, to make timely change.

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We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

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I am not an accomplished lawyer.

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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

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There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.

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I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."

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When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

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Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

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Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

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The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

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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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