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There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.

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Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung

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In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may remember, as I well do, that from Louisville to the mouth of the Ohio there were, on board, ten or a dozen slaves, shackled together with irons. That sight was a continual torment to me; and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio, or any other slave-border.

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Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever-it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself.

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If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised by the other.

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Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief. Once relieved, its form of government is saved to the world; its beloved history, and cherished memories, are vindicated; and its happy future fully assured, and rendered inconceivably grand.

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Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away.

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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded.

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He who does something at the head of one Regiment, will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred.

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Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged by ambitious and designing men, but stand fast to the Union and the old flag.

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No State, upon it own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally nothing. I therefore consider that the Union is unbroken. There needs to be no bloodshed or violence; and there shall be none, unless forced upon the national authority.

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There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.

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I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.

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I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.

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What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

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We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

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The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

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

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the better angels of our nature

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