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" I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side. "

Abraham Lincoln

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" I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. "

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" I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. "

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" I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand. "

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" Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality. "

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" Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. "

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" The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence. "

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

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" Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. "

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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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" 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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" Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. "

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

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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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" The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded. "

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

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" If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. "

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" Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech. "

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" I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day. "

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