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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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" 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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" Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. "

" Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar. "

" If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance. "

" 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. "

Abraham Lincoln

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" I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance. "

" In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say. "

" If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned. "

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

" In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home. "

" With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. "

" If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors. "

" 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. "

" Whatever you are, be a good one. "

" The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. "

" Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people. "

" Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. "

" 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. "

" What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. "

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

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

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

" 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. "