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

Abraham Lincoln

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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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" I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always. "

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" No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. "

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" Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak. "

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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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" Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them. "

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" 'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this. "

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

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" Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth. "

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" I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. "

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

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" The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. "

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

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" All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. "

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" I understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo, it should never be abandoned. This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist, without throwing passengers and cargo overboard. "

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" In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say. "

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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 always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig. "

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" Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision. "

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" It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them. "

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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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" Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. "

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