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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

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We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.

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I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some will get wealthy. I dont believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good.

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If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.

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As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.

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While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

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Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert? I think that in such a cse to silence the agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional but withal a great mercy.

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The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.

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I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question (slavery). They have constantly brought forward small cures for great sores-plasters too small to cover the wound. That is one reason that all settlements have proved so temporary-so evanescent.

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Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.

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I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.

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There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.

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One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.

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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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But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.

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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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The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part of thee.

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Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.

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I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent the Divine will. ... I hope it will not be irreverent for me to say that if it is probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me... These are not, however, the days of miracles ... I must study the plain physical facts of the case, ascertain what is possible, and learn what appears to be wise and right.

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You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak

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