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

Abraham Lincoln

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" I understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo, it should never be abandoned. This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist, without throwing passengers and cargo overboard. "

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" How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg. "

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

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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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" I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me. "

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

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

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

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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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" Everybody likes a compliment. "

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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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" I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind. "

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" I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. "

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" To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances. "

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" It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. "

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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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" When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion. "

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

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" In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it. "

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