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A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.

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My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

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You cannot fail unless you quit.

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Writing is the great invention of the world.

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Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent.

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Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.

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I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. Leaving the higher matter of eternal consequences, between him and his Maker, I still do not think any man has the right thus to insult the feelings, and injure the morals, of the community in which he may live.

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The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.

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The world shall know that I will keep my faith to friends and enemies, come what will.

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None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing

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If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

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All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy.

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The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.

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Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.

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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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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

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He who does something at the head of one Regiment, will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred.

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I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do.

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If they do kill me, I shall never die another death.

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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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