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Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.

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As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government.

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Do I not damage my enemies after i make them my close friends?

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If it were not for my firm belief in an overruling Providence, it would be difficult for me, in the midst of such complications of affairs, to keep my reason on its seat. But I am confident that the Almighty has His plans, and will work them out; and, whether we see it or not, they will be the best for us.

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Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

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Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me

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When met with a problem I always ask myself what is the right thing to do and then I do it.

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The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes.

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Doubtless you begin to understand how disagreeable it is to me to do a thing arbitrarily, when it is unsatisfactory to others associated with me.

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I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

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As long as the Almighty permitted intelligent men, created in his image and likeness, to fight in public and kill each other while the world looks on approvingly, it's not for me to deprive the chickens of the same privilege.

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I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his followers, the papists, so long as they tell me, through all their councils, theologians, and canon laws that their conscience orders them to burn my wife, strangle my children, and cut my throat when they find their opportunity.

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I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.

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Did Stanton say I was a damned fool? Then I dare say I must be one, for Stanton is generally right and he always says what he means.

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Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered.

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You say men ought to be hung for the way they are executing the law; I say the way it is being executed is quite as good as any of its antecedents. It is being executed in the precise way which was intended from the first, else why does no Nebraska man express astonishment or condemnation? Poor Reeder is the only public man who has been silly enough to believe that anything like fairness was ever intended, and he has been bravely undeceived.

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I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.

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If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

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if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

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