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" I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. "

Abraham Lincoln

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" To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary. "

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" 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. "

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" Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort. "

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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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" The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use. "

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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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" We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?' "

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" 'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it. "

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

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" Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar. "

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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 ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors. "

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" Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built. "

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" If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted. "

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" The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. "

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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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" A house divided against itself cannot stand. "

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

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" We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this. "

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" Never regret what you don't write. "

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" Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. "

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

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" All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. "

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

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" As our case is new, we must think and act anew. "

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

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