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

Abraham Lincoln

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

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With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

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You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

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It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

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Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.

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I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

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It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

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Everybody likes a compliment.

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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

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I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

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Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

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Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

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My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

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How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.

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We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

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When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.

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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

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