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

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Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are.

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It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.

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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.

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I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under the national auspices, - I am inflexible. I am for no compromise which assists or permits the extension of the institution on soil owned by the nation.

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I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.

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in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

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A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... He will assume control of your cities, states and nations. He is going to move in and take over your churches, schools, universities, and corporations ... The fate of humanity is in his hands.

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Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.

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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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Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.

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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

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To read in the Bible, as the word of God himself, that "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, ["] and to preach there-from that, "In the sweat of other mans faces shalt thou eat bread," to my mind can scarcely be reconciled with honest sincerity.

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The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.

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This nation under God

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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

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Lincoln called laughter "the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life."

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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

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I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent the Divine will. I am sure that either the one or the other class is mistaken in that belief, and perhaps in some respects both.

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I turn, then, and look to the American people and to that God who has never forsaken them.

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