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Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.

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The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.

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If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would do that. I have here stated my purpose according to my official duty, and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free.

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Capital has its proper place and is entitled to every protection. The wages of men should be recognized in the structure of and in the social order as more important than the wages of money [interest].

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I have never united myself to any church because I found difficulty in giving my assent without mental reservation to the long, complicated statements of Christian doctrine which characterize the articles of belief and the usual confession of faith.

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It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.

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We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There is no permanent class of hired laborers amongst us. Twenty-five years ago, I was a hired laborer. The hired laborer of yesterday, labors on his own account today; and will hire others to labor for him tomorrow.

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As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.

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No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

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Submitted to the Sec. of War. On principle I dislike an oath which requires a man to swear he has not done wrong. It rejects the Christian principle of forgiveness on terms of repentance. I think it is enough if the man does no wrong hereafter.

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For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their substance the soldier puts his life at stake, and often yields it up in his country's cause. The highest merit, then is due to the soldier.

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I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was'.

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Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.

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Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.

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I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

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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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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

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The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.

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...Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man-this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore they must be placed in and inferior position...Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal.

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I destroy my enemy if I make him my friend.

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