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" A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. "

Abraham Lincoln

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

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" A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have. "

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" My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. "

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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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" If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? "

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

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" To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances. "

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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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" I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise. "

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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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" I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. "

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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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" All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. "

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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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" Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. "

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" I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. "

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" It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. "

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" The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature. "

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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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" I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. "

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" Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality. "

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" There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.' "

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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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" Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it. "

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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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" 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 disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular. "

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" You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time. "

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" There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury. "

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" If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied. "

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