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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

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A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

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When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."

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What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

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If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.

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The enthusiastic uprising of the people in our cause, is our great reliance; and we can not safely give it any check, even thoughit overflows, and runs in channels not laid down in any chart.

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We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

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Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.

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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

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But for that Book, we could not know right from wrong.

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We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

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Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains, its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it.

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We hope all danger may be overcome; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous.

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I certainly know that if the war fails, the administration fails, and that I will be blamed for it, whether I deserve it or not. And I ought to be blamed, if I could do better. You think I could do better; therefore you blame me already. I think I could not do better; therefore I blame you for blaming me.

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Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

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Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.

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Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.

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In my entire life I have only met four "perfect" people... and I disliked them all.

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Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity.

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You are young, and I am older; You are hopeful, I am not- Enjoy life, ere it grow colder- Pluck the roses ere they rot.

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