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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. "

Abraham Lincoln

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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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" If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. "

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" You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. "

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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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" When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying. "

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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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" 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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" No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent. "

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" Whatever you are, be a good one. "

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

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" A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general. "

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" 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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" Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation. "

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" We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. "

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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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" Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder. "

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" With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. "

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

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" I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow. "

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" Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before. "

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" Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. "

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