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" If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it. "

Abraham Lincoln

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" I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise. "

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" Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. "

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" When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying. "

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" You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. "

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" 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? "

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" The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied. "

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" 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. "

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" When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees. "

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" We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this. "

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

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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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded. "

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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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" Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold. "

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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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" A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap. "

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

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