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There was the strangest combination of church influence against me. Baker is a Campbellite; and therefore, as I suppose with few exceptions, got all of that Church. My wife had some relations in the Presbyterian churches, and some in the Episcopal churches; and therefore, wherever it would tell, I was set down as either one or the other, while it was everywhere contended that no Christian ought to vote for me because I belonged to no Church, and was suspected of being a Deist and had talked of fighting a duel.

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The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.

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Behind the cloud the sun is still shining.

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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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I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

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Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

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Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.

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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

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When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three.... The little advanceI now have upon this store of education, I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity.

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I can hardly believe that the South and North can live in peace, unless we can get rid of the negroes ... I believe that it would be better to export them all to some fertile country with a good climate, which they could have to themselves.

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Did Stanton say I was a damned fool? Then I dare say I must be one, for Stanton is generally right and he always says what he means.

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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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It is for us and our time...to say the right makes might.

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Believing everybody is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.

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It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.

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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

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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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The health you enjoy is largely your choice

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Without Divine assistance I can not succeed; with it I can not fail.

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