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I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

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Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

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Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

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Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.

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Believing everybody is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.

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In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he [the president] is the representative of the people. He is elected by them, as well as congress is. But can he, in the nature [of] things, know the wants of the people, as well as three hundred other men, coming from all the various localities of the nation? If so, where is the propriety of having a congress?

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We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat it as a wrong in the territories, where our votes will reach it.

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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 expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me.

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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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I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.

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I am slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned. My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch any thing on it and almost impossible after you get it there to rub it out.

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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

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Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.

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If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

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My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I...fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out.

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Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.

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Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the first only is meritorious; and to it all the products of labour rightfully belong; but the two latter, while they exist, are heavy pensioners upon the first, robbing it of a large portion of it's just rights. The only remedy for this is to, as far as possible, drive useless labour and idleness out of existence.

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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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