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The damnest scoundrel that ever lived, but in the infinite mercy of Providence... also the damnest fool.

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When you lack interest in the case the job will very likely lack skill and diligence in the performance.

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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

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You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

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While we are grateful to all the brave men and officers for the events of the past few days, we should, above all, be very grateful to Almighty God, who gives us victory.

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In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

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Received as I am by the members of a legislature the majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments, I trust that I may have their assistance in piloting the ship of state through this voyage, surrounded by perils as it is; for if it should suffer wreck now, there will be no pilot ever needed for another voyage.

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I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.

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I see a very dark cloud on America's horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome.

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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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He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that he is penetrating, so far as lies in his power, the human soul, and eradicating the light of reason and the love of liberty, when he is in every possible way preparing the public mind, by his vast influence, for making the institution of slavery perpetual and national.

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I turn, then, and look to the American people and to that God who has never forsaken them.

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The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.

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In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred, of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveries. Of these were the art of writing and of printing - the discovery of America, and the introduction of Patent-laws. The date of the first ... is unknown; but it certainly was as much as fifteen hundred years before the Christian era; the second-printing-came in 1436, or nearly three thousand years after the first. The others followed more rapidly - the discovery of America in 1492, and the first patent laws in 1624.

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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

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I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.

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I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.

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The matter of fees is important, far beyond the mere question of bread and butter involved. Properly attended to, fuller justice is done to both lawyer and client.

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I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.

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Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.

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