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Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are.

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Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

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Never do anything for anyone who can just as well do it themself

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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

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I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under the national auspices, - I am inflexible. I am for no compromise which assists or permits the extension of the institution on soil owned by the nation.

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A lawyer's time and advice are his(her) stock in trade.

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A day spent helping no one but yourself is a day wasted.

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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

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The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.

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In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in the making the bondage of the negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, and sneered at, and construed, and hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

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if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

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I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

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Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object

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For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their substance the soldier puts his life at stake, and often yields it up in his country's cause. The highest merit, then is due to the soldier.

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He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that he is penetrating, so far as lies in his power, the human soul, and eradicating the light of reason and the love of liberty, when he is in every possible way preparing the public mind, by his vast influence, for making the institution of slavery perpetual and national.

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You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry

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Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?

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But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.

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The Constitution is not a suicide pact.

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