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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. "

Abraham Lincoln

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

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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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" The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. "

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" I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. "

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" Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people. "

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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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" He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. "

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" These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have. "

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" Some day I shall be President. "

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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 there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance. "

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" We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. "

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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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" 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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" We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it. "

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" Don't swap horses in crossing a stream. "

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" I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. "

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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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" Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them. "

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" I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always. "

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

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" The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions. "

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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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" 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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" Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort. "

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

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