Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Punishment Quotes, Trying Quotes

The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.

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The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity.

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It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.

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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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As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.

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The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part of thee.

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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 have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me.

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I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

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The worst thing you can do for anyone you care about is anything that they can do on their own.

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A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands.

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You think slavery is right and ought to be extended; while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.

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All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible.

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Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.

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Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.

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No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them; but in this case, favour to me,would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it.

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The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea.

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No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

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If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

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

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