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" I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. "

Abraham Lincoln

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

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" I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man? "

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" 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. "

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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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" I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up. "

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" Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it. "

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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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" At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. "

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" That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. "

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