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No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.

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If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

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No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own - my creators - not man's. I shall never sink the rights of mankind to the malice, wrong, or avarice of another's wishes, though those wishes come to me in the relation of client and attorney.

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A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be.

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The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another mans right of property. Republicans, on the contrary, are for both the man and the dollar; but in cases of conflict, the man before the dollar.

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Submitted to the Sec. of War. On principle I dislike an oath which requires a man to swear he has not done wrong. It rejects the Christian principle of forgiveness on terms of repentance. I think it is enough if the man does no wrong hereafter.

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Elections belong to the people. It's their decision.

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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded.

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Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief.

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Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.

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Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves muchthe higher consideration.

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Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

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I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

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I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

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We, on our side, are praying to Him to give us victory, because we believe we are right; but those on the other side pray to Him, look for victory, believing they are right. What must He think of us?

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So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.

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Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

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Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

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We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.

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Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.

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