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Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.

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A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad.

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In this troublesome world, we are never quite satisfied. When you were here, I thought you hindered me some in attending to business; but now, having nothing but business---no variety---it has grown exceedingly tasteless to me. I hate to sit down and direct documents, and I hate to stay in this old room by myself.

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When you have got a ticket to send, and you're not a top costumer, it's best not to waste your time.

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Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.

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I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.

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Always remember: Life is for enjoying.

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I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet.

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No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them; but in this case, favour to me,would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it.

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We, on our side, are praying to Him to give us victory, because we believe we are right; but those on the other side pray to Him, look for victory, believing they are right. What must He think of us?

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With malice towards none; with charity for all.

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We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat it as a wrong in the territories, where our votes will reach it.

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

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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

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The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

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I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.

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Of our political revolution of '76, we all are justly proud. It has given us a degree of political freedom, far exceeding that of any other nation of the earth. In it the world has found a solution of the long mooted problem, as to the capability of man to govern himself. In it was the germ which has vegetated, and still is to grow and expand into the universal liberty of mankind.

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Prosperity is the fruit of labor. It begins with saving money.

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If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die.

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As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.

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