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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. "

Abraham Lincoln

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" I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females). "

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" I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. "

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" Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. "

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" The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.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

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" I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. "

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" My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. "

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

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" He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help. "

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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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" These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel. "

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" I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman's skillet and the man's ax-helve. "

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" He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make. "

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" Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold. "

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" In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. "

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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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" Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision. "

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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 should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it. "

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" As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. "

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" You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. "

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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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" Don't swap horses in crossing a stream. "

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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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" 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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" Avoid popularity if you would have peace. "

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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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" This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. "

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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. "

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

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