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" I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow. "
Abraham Lincoln
Respect
Great
Handy
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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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" I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. "
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Man
Know
" 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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" I understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo, it should never be abandoned. This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist, without throwing passengers and cargo overboard. "
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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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" If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. "
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Try
Well
Answer
" 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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Heart
History
" 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. "
Abraham Lincoln
Saying
Way
Slavery
" 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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Wolf
Thanks
" My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth. "
Abraham Lincoln
Patriotism
Time
America
" 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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Power
Tyranny
Life
" My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. "
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You
Your
Content
" 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. "
Abraham Lincoln
House
Down
Build
" A house divided against itself cannot stand. "
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House
Cannot
Against
" Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed. "
Abraham Lincoln
Succeed
Man
Myself
" Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected. "
Abraham Lincoln
Friends
Done
Much
" 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. "
Abraham Lincoln
Decisions
Own
Think
" Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow. "
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Slavery
Nature
Man
" If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance. "
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Chance
Him
Man
" Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. "
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Make
Minds
Most
" There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.' "
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Truth Is
Truth
Time
" The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them. "
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Save
People
Allow
" 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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You
Dog
Saying
" Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. "
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Power
People
Hope
" The ballot is stronger than the bullet. "
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Ballot
Stronger
Than
" Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. "
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Feel
Arguing
Him
" Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything. "
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Single
Will
Agreement
" That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one. "
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Support
Government
Now
" There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury. "
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True
Sometimes
Mind
" The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence. "
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Diligence
Lawyer
Calling