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" Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets. "

Abraham Lincoln

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

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" My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say. "

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" The ballot is stronger than the bullet. "

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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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" Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold. "

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" The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand. "

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

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" I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. "

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" Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. "

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" I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. "

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" Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. "

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

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" I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. "

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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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" Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak. "

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" I can make more generals, but horses cost money. "

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" Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. "

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

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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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