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Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly, or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or with them, about their slaves? If they do, I wish to assure you, as once a friend, and still, I hope, not an enemy, that there is no cause for such fears.

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I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.

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Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream.

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It is a good face. I am glad this war is over at last.

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If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and struggle for office, which is but a way to live without work.

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The Almighty has His own purposes.

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Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.

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In my entire life I have only met four "perfect" people... and I disliked them all.

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In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good.

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I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a mouth to receive bread, hands to feed it, and his hand has a right to carry bread to his mouth without controversy.

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The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil.

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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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Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.

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Don't pray that God's on our side, pray that we're on his side.

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I trust that as He shall further open the way, I will be ready to walk therein, relying on His help and trusting in His goodness and wisdom.

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There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races... A separation of the races is the only perfect preventive of amalgamation, but as an immediate separation is impossible, the next best thing is to keep them apart where they are not already together. If white and black people never get together in Kansas, they will never mix blood in Kansas...

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What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?

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No duty is more imperative for the government than the duty it ;owes the people to furnish them with a sound and uniform currency, an of regulating the circulation of the medium of exchange so that labor will be protected from a vicious currency [private bank-created, interest-bearing debt], and commerce will be facilitated by cheap and safe exchanges.

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I hold the value of life is to improve one's condition. Whatever is calculated to advance the condition of the honest, struggling laboring man, so far as my judgment will enable me to judge of a correct thing, I am for that thing.

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Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.

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