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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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I am slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned. My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch any thing on it and almost impossible after you get it there to rub it out.

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Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.

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A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad.

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A man's legs must be long enough to reach the ground.

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Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.

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When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.'

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There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.

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To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.

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I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never espouse their quarrels on either side. My sincere wish is that both sides will allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.

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I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army.

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In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may remember, as I well do, that from Louisville to the mouth of the Ohio there were, on board, ten or a dozen slaves, shackled together with irons. That sight was a continual torment to me; and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio, or any other slave-border.

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If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already. It is but a small matter whether you read with anyone or not. I did not read with anyone. Get the books, and read and study them till you understand them in their principal features; and that is the main thing. It is of no consequence to be in a large town while you are reading. I read at New Salem, which never had three hundred people living in it. The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places.

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confused and Stunned, like a duck hit on the head.

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I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war.

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In using the strong hand, as now compelled to do, the government has a difficult duty to perform. At the very best, it will by turns do both too little and too much. It can properly have no motive of revenge, no purpose to punish merely for punishment's sake. While we must, by all available means, prevent the overthrow of the government, we should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.

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I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.

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Received as I am by the members of a legislature the majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments, I trust that I may have their assistance in piloting the ship of state through this voyage, surrounded by perils as it is; for if it should suffer wreck now, there will be no pilot ever needed for another voyage.

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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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Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.

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