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" I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. "

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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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" It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life. "

" Whatever you are, be a good one. "

" I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. "

" Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything. "

" Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. "

" When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say. "

" I am a slow walker, but I never walk back. "

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

" If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? "

" I will prepare and some day my chance will come. "

" America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. "

" 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. "

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

" I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay. "

" Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. "

" 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. "

" These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel. "

" I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong. "

" 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. "

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

" 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? "

" Never regret what you don't write. "

" The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded. "

" I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females). "

" My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth. "

" I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others. "

" 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. "

" That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular. "

" Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. "