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Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.

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The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.

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Why don't you laugh? If I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do.

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Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.

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A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.

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Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.

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I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.

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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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The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.

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All I have learned, I learned from books.

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Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

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Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people back into the hateful paths of despotism. They knew the proneness of prosperity to breed tyrants, and they meant when such should re-appear in this fair land and commence their vocation they should find left for them at least one hard nut to crack.

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Ready are we all to cry out and ascribe motives when our toes are pinched.

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I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the way for our doing it.

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God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

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Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

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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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Senator Douglas holds, we know, that a man may rightfully be wiser today than he was yesterday - that he may rightfully change when he finds himself wrong. But can we, for that reason, run ahead, and infer that he will make any particular change, of which he, himself, has given no intimation?

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If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions.

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Abraham Lincoln was asked by an aide about the church service he had attended. Lincoln responded that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent and the topic relevant. The aide said, “Then it was a good service?” Lincoln responded, “No.” The aide protested, “But, Mr. President, you said that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent, and that the topic was relevant.” “Yes,” replied Lincoln, “but he didn’t challenge us to do any great thing.

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