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If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing on an average one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes -- no other marks or brands recollected.

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The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.

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He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel.

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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

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The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil.

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Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.

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The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

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Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but, if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her.

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

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When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three.... The little advanceI now have upon this store of education, I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity.

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Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.

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It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to mean no more than that an army is better directed by a single mind, though inferior, than by two superior ones at variance and cross-purposes with each other. And the same is true in all joint operations wherein those engaged can have none but a common end in view and can differ only as to the choice of means. In a storm at sea no one on board can wish the ship to sink, and yet not unfrequently all go down together because too many will direct and no single mind can be allowed to control.

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The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was not made to conceal or destroy the apple, but to adorn and preserve it. The picture was made for the apple-not the apple for the picture.

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

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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

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There' s nothing good in war. Except its ending.

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We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed.

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Gratefully accepting the proffered honor, [to inscribe a new legal work to him] I give the leave, begging only that the inscription may be in modest terms, not representing me as a man of great learning, or a very extraordinary one in any respect.

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That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.

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

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