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" I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up. "

Abraham Lincoln

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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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" When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism. "

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" I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free. "

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" These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have. "

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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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" Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. "

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" I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed. "

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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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" Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it. "

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" My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say. "

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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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" My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all. "

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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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" Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? "

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" I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. "

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" Never regret what you don't write. "

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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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" True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety. "

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

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" I will prepare and some day my chance will come. "

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" The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application. "

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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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" Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it. "

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

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" In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. "

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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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" I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause. "

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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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