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

Abraham Lincoln

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" I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed. "

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" He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make. "

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" Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed. "

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" For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period. "

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

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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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" If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. "

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" Never regret what you don't write. "

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" A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap. "

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" As our case is new, we must think and act anew. "

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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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" Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech. "

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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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" Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South. "

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" The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence. "

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" The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. "

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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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" Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. "

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" I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig. "

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" I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life. "

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" Avoid popularity if you would have peace. "

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" Whatever you are, be a good one. "

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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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" He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help. "

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" That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one. "

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" It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe. "

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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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" 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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" Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar. "

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

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