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In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free. I insist that they found the institution of slavery existing here. They did not make it so, but they left it so because they knew of no way to get rid of it at that time.

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If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.

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Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged by ambitious and designing men, but stand fast to the Union and the old flag.

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Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

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If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

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Through their deeds, the dead of battle have spoken more eloquently for themselves than any of the living ever could. But we can only honor them by rededicating ourselves to the cause for which they gave a last full measure of devotion.

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I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.

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Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.

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As long as the Almighty permitted intelligent men, created in his image and likeness, to fight in public and kill each other while the world looks on approvingly, it's not for me to deprive the chickens of the same privilege.

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You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed.

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That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

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I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.

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The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision.

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The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.

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I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me

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Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privileges and positions. The present moment finds me at the White House, yet there is as good a chance for your children as there was for my father's.

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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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I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

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I certainly know that if the war fails, the administration fails, and that I will be blamed for it, whether I deserve it or not. And I ought to be blamed, if I could do better. You think I could do better; therefore you blame me already. I think I could not do better; therefore I blame you for blaming me.

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Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.

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