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The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.

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Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

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You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry

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I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.

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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

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I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.

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As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

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Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

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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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A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

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We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

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With this honor devolves upon you also a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so under God it will sustain you.

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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.

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No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

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The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

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There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow.

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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

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I am absent altogether too much to be a suitable instructor for a law-student. When a man has reached the age that Mr. Widner has,and has already been doing for himself, my judgment is, that he reads the books for himself without an instructor. That is precisely the way I came to the law.

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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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Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.

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