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

Abraham Lincoln

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" The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. "

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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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" 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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" Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it. "

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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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" Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there. "

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" 'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it. "

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" The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application. "

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" I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel. "

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" I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other. "

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

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

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

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

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" By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle? "

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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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" If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union? "

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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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" 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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" You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. "

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

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