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The man who stands by and says nothing, when the peril of his government is discussed, can not be misunderstood. If not hindered, he is sure to help the enemy.

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In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may remember, as I well do, that from Louisville to the mouth of the Ohio there were, on board, ten or a dozen slaves, shackled together with irons. That sight was a continual torment to me; and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio, or any other slave-border.

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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

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Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.

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Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.

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Whatever уоu are, bе а good one.

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I destroy my enemy if I make him my friend.

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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

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When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."

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When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.

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My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.

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Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

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I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one of them, more than to yourself.

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Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.

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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

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We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

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Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No community where every member possesses the art can ever be the victim of oppression in any of its forms.

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It's bad. It's damned bad.

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