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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. "

Abraham Lincoln

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

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" Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. "

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" I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause. "

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" Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. "

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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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" That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular. "

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

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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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" This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. "

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

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" I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females). "

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" If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. "

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

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" My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say. "

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

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

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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 mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature. "

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

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" No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained. "

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" Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort. "

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" Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors. "

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