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" Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this. "
Abraham Lincoln
Litigation
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Who
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" Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality. "
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" Avoid popularity if you would have peace. "
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" It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe. "
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" I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. "
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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. "
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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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" The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. "
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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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" I can make more generals, but horses cost money. "
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" What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. "
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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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" I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay. "
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" Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. "
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" Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? "
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" You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. "
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" Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected. "
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" Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong. "
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" I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. "
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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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" Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there. "
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" When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion. "
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" We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us. "
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" The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. "
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" I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other. "
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