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Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.

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I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.

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Everybody likes compliment.

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The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth.

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Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity.

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I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.

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We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.

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If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined.

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Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?], any man might instantly use what another had invented; so that the inventor had no special advantage from his own invention. The patent system changed this; secured to the inventor, for a limited time, the exclusive use of his invention; and thereby added the fuel of interest to the fire of genius, in the discovery and production of new and useful things.

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Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?

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I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling.

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Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.

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The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes.

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I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else.

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I do not doubt that our country will finally come through safe and undivided. But do not misunderstand me... I do not rely on the patriotism of our people... the bravery and devotion of the boys in blue... (or) the loyalty and skill of our generals... But the God of our fathers, Who raised up this country to be the refuge and asylum of the oppressed and downtrodden of all nations, will not let it perish now. I may not live to see it... I do not expect to see it, but God will bring us through safe.

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We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

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I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question (slavery). They have constantly brought forward small cures for great sores-plasters too small to cover the wound. That is one reason that all settlements have proved so temporary-so evanescent.

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Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.

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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

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I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.

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