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And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.

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The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

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In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.

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We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

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Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality... Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism.

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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought

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Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

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What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?

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Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

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My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

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When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

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No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

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Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

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While I have often said that all men out to be free, yet I would allow those colored persons to be slaves who want to be; and next to them those white persons who argue in favor of making other people slaves. I am in favor of giving an opportunity to such white men to try it on for themselves.

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The time has come when I am for everybody fighting the rebels. Let Indians fight them; let the Negroes fight them; and if you have got any strong-legged jackasses in Iwoa that can kick rebels to death, they have my hearty consent.

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By all means, don't say, "if I can," say "I will."

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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

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The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for allcommanders.

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I will learn, the opportunity will come.

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I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence, I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.

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