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He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.

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We shall not fail - if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come.

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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

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Liquor may have its defenders, but it has no defense.

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Don't be fooled. I kept all my workout clothes in that top hat.

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Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.

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When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of both law and Gospel, 'Thou shalt love the lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul and thy neighbor as thyself' that church will I join with all my heart and all my soul.

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We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.

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Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

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If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this.

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Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, . . . nor of torture to extort confessions.

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Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.

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When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.

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That I am not a member of any Christian Church, is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures; and I have never spoken with intentional disrepect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

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I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it.

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The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.

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What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?

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Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and confirm that you didn't do the assigned readings before the strategic planning retreat.

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Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.

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That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thence forward, and forever free.

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