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" Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before. "

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" My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. "

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

" A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have. "

" There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.' "

" Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition. "

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

" Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. "

" Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. "

" With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. "

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" We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?' "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. "

" Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old. "

" If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. "

" It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind. "

" If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied. "

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

" Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. "

" 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. "

" When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say. "

" He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. "

" We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. "

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