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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

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Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent.

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If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up.

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Most people are as happy as they want to be.

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The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

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The President responded very impressively, saying that he was deeply sensible of his need of Divine assistance. He had sometime thought that perhaps he might be an instrument in God's hands of accomplishing a great work and he certainly was not unwilling to be. Perhaps, however, God's way of accomplishing the end which the memorialists have in view may be different from theirs.

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If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.

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One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.

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How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.

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Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

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The severest justice may not always be the best policy

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All creation is a mine, and every man a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about it, including himself ... are the infinitely various "leads" from which, man, from the first, was to dig out his destiny.

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If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year there could scarcely be one human being left alive--all would have perished by want of subsistence.

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Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.

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This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.

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If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die.

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The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.

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I cannot speak so confidently about the fighting qualities of the Eastern men, or what are called Yankees - not knowing myself particularly to whom the appellation belongs - but this I do know - if the Southerners think that man for man they are better than our Illinois men, or western men generally, they will discover themselves in a grievous mistake.

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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

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On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.

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