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I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election; but if they do, the true [cure] is in the next election, and not in the treachery of the person elected.

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All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

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[I]f the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting, the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased, to be their own rulers, having, to that extent, practically resigned their Government, into the hands of that eminent tribunal.

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I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling.

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I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question (slavery). They have constantly brought forward small cures for great sores-plasters too small to cover the wound. That is one reason that all settlements have proved so temporary-so evanescent.

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This is essentially a people's contest... whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from all shoulders - to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all - to afford all, an unfettered start and a fair chance, in the race of life.

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I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war.

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Whether you look for the good or look for the bad in a person, you'll find it." A. Lincoln

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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

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

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Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises verywell, considering we never controlled him much.

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No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own - my creators - not man's. I shall never sink the rights of mankind to the malice, wrong, or avarice of another's wishes, though those wishes come to me in the relation of client and attorney.

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Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.

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Writing is the great invention of the world.

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Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

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The best way to get rid of your enemies is to make them your friends.

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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

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The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.

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An allusion has been made to the Homestead Law. I think it worthy of consideration, and that the wild lands of the country should be distributed so that every man should have the means and opportunity of benefitting his condition.

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Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".

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