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" Never regret what you don't write. "

Abraham Lincoln

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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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" If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat. "

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" In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it. "

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" When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism. "

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" I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman's skillet and the man's ax-helve. "

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" Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. "

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" He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make. "

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" Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people. "

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" Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. "

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" True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety. "

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

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" The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him. "

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" Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech. "

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" Avoid popularity if you would have peace. "

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

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" He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help. "

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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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" For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period. "

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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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