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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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" Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. "

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" If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? "

" I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. "

" Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them. "

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

" The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him. "

" 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. "

" Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. "

" When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. "

" Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. "

" A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. "

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

" You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. "

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

" I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man? "

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

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

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

" There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" As our case is new, we must think and act anew. "

" 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. "

" My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth. "

" The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. "

" 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. "

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

" It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them. "

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