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A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

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Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

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I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of.

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Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung

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That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thence forward, and forever free.

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The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.

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I was born and have ever remaind [sic] in the most humble walks of life.

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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.

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We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

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If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.

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If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.

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I will either be America's greatest president or its last.

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Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

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Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time.

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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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It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

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in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

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You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

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