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You think slavery is right and ought to be extended; while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.

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Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other right.

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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

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Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.

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I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

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The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.

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Nothing is more damaging to you than to do something that you believe is wrong.

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Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of another man, neither that other man nor anybody else has a right to object.

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Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.

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Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.

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As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

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To read in the Bible, as the word of God himself, that "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, ["] and to preach there-from that, "In the sweat of other mans faces shalt thou eat bread," to my mind can scarcely be reconciled with honest sincerity.

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I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent the Divine will. I am sure that either the one or the other class is mistaken in that belief, and perhaps in some respects both.

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The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.

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One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.

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Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".

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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

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I am not an accomplished lawyer.

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I am busily engaged in study of the Bible.

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