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Nothing will divert me from my purpose.

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History is not history unless it is the truth.

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Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.

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How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

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I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.

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I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything.

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I do not allow myself to suppose that either the convention or the League, have concluded to decide that I am either the greatest or the best man in America, but rather they have concluded it is not best to swap horses while crossing the river, and have further concluded that I am not so poor a horse that they might not make a botch of it in trying to swap.

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A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

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There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.

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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

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No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. .. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions.

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What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

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I have always believed that a good laugh was good for both the mental and physical digestion.

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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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He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel.

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I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.

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Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

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It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, "You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it."

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