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A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.

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If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

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I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

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Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

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Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

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If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up.

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May our children and our children's children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have cause yet to rejoice under those glorious institutions bequeathed us by Washington and his compeers.

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No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

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As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

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Negro equality, Fudge!! How long in the Government of a God great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagoguism as this?

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Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other right.

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A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

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I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.

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Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

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Everybody appreciates a compliment.

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I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

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