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" I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life. "

Abraham Lincoln

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" Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. "

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

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" It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. "

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" 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. "

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

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" I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay. "

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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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" 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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" Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us. "

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" Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there. "

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" Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets. "

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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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" If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat. "

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" No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. "

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

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" Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow. "

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" 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. "

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" A house divided against itself cannot stand. "

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" The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. "

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" I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. "

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" Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed. "

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

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" Important principles may, and must, be inflexible. "

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" I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union. "

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" Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. "

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