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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. "

Abraham Lincoln

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" Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. "

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" If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. "

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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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" Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. "

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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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" Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure. "

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" No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained. "

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

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" Everybody likes a compliment. "

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" Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors. "

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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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" A house divided against itself cannot stand. "

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" Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. "

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" I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. "

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

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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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" If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat. "

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" The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. "

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

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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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" I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. "

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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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" As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. "

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

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" My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. "

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" The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. "

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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. "

Abraham Lincoln

" My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. "

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

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