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" If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union? "

Abraham Lincoln

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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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" If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted. "

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" The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence. "

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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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