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I always remember the prayers of my mother as they always forever.

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When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.

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A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.

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

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The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.

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Talk to the jury as though your client's fate depends on every word you utter.

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It is not our frowning battlements...or the strength our gallant and disciplined army? These are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land... Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.

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Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream.

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

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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

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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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I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.

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Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

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People are just as happy as they choose to be.

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Relying, as I do, upon the Almighty Power, and encouraged as I am by these resolutions which you have just read, with the support which I receive from Christian men, I shall not hesitate to use all the means at my control to secure the termination of this rebellion, and will hope for success.

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I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the sternest necessity can ever justify it. A government had better go to the extreme of toleration, than to do aught that could be construed into an interference with, or to jeopardize in any degree, the common rights of its citizens.

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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

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Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember

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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

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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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