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" A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general. "

Abraham Lincoln

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" 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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" I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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 like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. "

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" Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in. "

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

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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 I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it. "

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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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" In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say. "

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

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" The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use. "

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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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" 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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" I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free. "

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" In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home. "

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" If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. "

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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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" It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life. "

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" When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees. "

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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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" The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded. "

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" Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old. "

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" I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others. "

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

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

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