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If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die.

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Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

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

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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

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To read in the Bible, as the word of God himself, that "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, ["] and to preach there-from that, "In the sweat of other mans faces shalt thou eat bread," to my mind can scarcely be reconciled with honest sincerity.

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Politics, as a trade, finds most and leaves nearly all dishonest.

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Let no young man choosing the law for a calling for a moment yield to the popular belief -- resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer.

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The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence; never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

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I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop

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I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might have shared with me in the elevation, I would rather stand on that eminence, than wear the richest crown that ever pressed a monarch's brow.

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As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?

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We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.

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We better know there is a fire whence we see much smoke rising than we could know it by one or two witnesses swearing to it. The witnesses may commit perjury, but the smoke cannot.

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Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War.

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Anxiety beclouds the future.

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Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases.

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We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

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We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.

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I cannot speak so confidently about the fighting qualities of the Eastern men, or what are called Yankees - not knowing myself particularly to whom the appellation belongs - but this I do know - if the Southerners think that man for man they are better than our Illinois men, or western men generally, they will discover themselves in a grievous mistake.

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It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.

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