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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour, to the last generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, our last best hope of Earth.

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Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.

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As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.

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At the beginning of the war, and for some time, the use of colored troops was not contemplated; and how the change of purpose was wrought, I will not now take time to explain. Upon a clear conviction of duty I resolved to turn that element of strength to account; and I am responsible for it to the American people, to the christian world, to history, and on my final account to God.

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I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.

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When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing.

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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought

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Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

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Seriously, I do not think I am fit for the Presidency.

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I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.

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During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel of it to each of my other generals!

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And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonnet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation.

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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

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There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.

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Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ... nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

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A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the money.

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My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years, and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.

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