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" Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. "

Abraham Lincoln

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" The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. "

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" Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it. "

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

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" If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? "

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" 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. "

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" Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. "

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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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" 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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" I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel. "

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" These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have. "

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

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" Everybody likes a compliment. "

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" I am rather inclined to silence. "

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" At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. "

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

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" I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. "

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

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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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" I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others. "

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" If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. "

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" No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent. "

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" The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them. "

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" A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me. "

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" I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model. "

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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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" 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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" Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar. "

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" It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. "

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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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