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" I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel. "
Abraham Lincoln
Slavery
Remember
I Am
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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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" I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance. "
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" Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us. "
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" The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them. "
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" Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it. "
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" If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. "
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" I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man? "
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" Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. "
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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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" When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. "
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" The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty. "
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Thanks
" If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? "
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Would
Funny
" When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion. "
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Bad
Good
" No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. "
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" Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. "
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Hope
" Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. "
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" 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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" Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. "
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" Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. "
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Minds
Most
" Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them. "
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" Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible. "
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" It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones. "
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Lines
New
" He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make. "
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Impossible
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" Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth. "
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Truth
Most
Lie
" If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. "
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" I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand. "
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" He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help. "
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" I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life. "
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I Was Born
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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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" If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors. "
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