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I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was'.

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I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.

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I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.

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There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

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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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As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.

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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

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Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and confirm that you didn't do the assigned readings before the strategic planning retreat.

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I cannot speak so confidently about the fighting qualities of the Eastern men, or what are called Yankees - not knowing myself particularly to whom the appellation belongs - but this I do know - if the Southerners think that man for man they are better than our Illinois men, or western men generally, they will discover themselves in a grievous mistake.

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Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men

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It is a pleasure to be able to quote lines to fit any occasion.

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Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.

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The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers.

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I never trusted a man who never smoked or drank.

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Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.

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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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Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality... Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism.

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Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

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Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged.

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