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Submitted to the Sec. of War. On principle I dislike an oath which requires a man to swear he has not done wrong. It rejects the Christian principle of forgiveness on terms of repentance. I think it is enough if the man does no wrong hereafter.

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By all means, don't say, "if I can," say "I will."

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We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.

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I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.

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I am busily engaged in study of the Bible.

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I am the President of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me these votes.

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No man ever got lost on a straight road.

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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

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If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

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I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.

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I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

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It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives.

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Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object

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What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

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He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel.

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But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

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There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury. Cast about, and see if this feeling has not injured every person you have ever known to fall into it.

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There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

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Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

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If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you can not get along anywhere.

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