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" I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind. "

Abraham Lincoln

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

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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. "

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

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" Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder. "

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" Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. "

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" Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there. "

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

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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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" The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions. "

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" Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure. "

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" The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.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

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" Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation. "

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" Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors. "

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" I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model. "

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

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" The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. "

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" I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others. "

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" There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.' "

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" It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life. "

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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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" Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. "

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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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" With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. "

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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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" Never regret what you don't write. "

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

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" Important principles may, and must, be inflexible. "

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