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" 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. "

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

" To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances. "

" Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything. "

" The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions. "

" All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. "

" We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. "

" 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 do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. "

" I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. "

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

" Avoid popularity if you would have peace. "

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

" Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. "

" With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds. "

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

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

" Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. "

" By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle? "

" Knavery and flattery are blood relations. "

" Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. "

" America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. "