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" I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig. "

Abraham Lincoln

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

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" I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. "

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" No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained. "

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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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" Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible. "

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" My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all. "

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

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" The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow 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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" Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them. "

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" It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction. "

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" How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg. "

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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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