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I freely acknowledge myself the servant of the people, according to the bond of service - the United States Constitution; and that, as such, I am responsible to them.

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I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

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By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a blind horse upon a tread-mill, is a perfect illustration of what a laborer should be -- all the better for being blind, that he could not tread out of place, or kick understandingly. According to that theory, the education of laborers, is not only useless, but pernicious, and dangerous. In fact, it is, in some sort, deemed a misfortune that laborers should have heads at all.

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Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.

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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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To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.

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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

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The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

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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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I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

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The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.

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It is not our frowning battlements...or the strength our gallant and disciplined army? These are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land... Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.

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Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid.

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When I got him out he was near froze solid and shivering. He was shaking so hard that I wasted half a glass of whiskey trying to aim it for his mouth. Must have got enough of it into him, though, since it did seem to bring him back to life.

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We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.

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The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.

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Everybody likes a compliment.

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I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

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If there is a worse place than Hell, I am in it.

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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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