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" I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. "

Abraham Lincoln

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" It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them. "

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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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" I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. "

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" The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand. "

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" Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong. "

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" These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have. "

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" Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. "

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" In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. "

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

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" It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones. "

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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. "

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" 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. "

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" If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied. "

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" Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old. "

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

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" Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak. "

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