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" There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.' "
Abraham Lincoln
Truth Is
Truth
Time
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" Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. "
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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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" I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. "
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" It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence. "
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Chance
Equal
" 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. "
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Blue
Africa
" I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me. "
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Lost
End
Earth
" No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. "
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Fight
Seem
Pet
" I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay. "
Abraham Lincoln
Slavery
I Can
Clay
" I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free. "
Abraham Lincoln
Believe
Free
Government
" My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth. "
Abraham Lincoln
Patriotism
Time
America
" 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. "
Abraham Lincoln
Man
Him
See
" I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union. "
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Desire
Slavery
Think
" Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar. "
Abraham Lincoln
Case
Conflict
Dollar
" The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand. "
Abraham Lincoln
Africa
Man
Her
" 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. "
Abraham Lincoln
Decisions
Own
Think
" I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. "
Abraham Lincoln
Man
Yesterday
Wiser
" Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible. "
Abraham Lincoln
Possible
Much
Chew
" 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. "
Abraham Lincoln
Slave
Leaving
Alone
" He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make. "
Abraham Lincoln
Decisions
Impossible
Possible
" 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. "
Abraham Lincoln
Man
I Am
House
" '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. "
Abraham Lincoln
Work
Slavery
Lion
" 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. "
Abraham Lincoln
Slavery
Remember
I Am
" Everybody likes a compliment. "
Abraham Lincoln
Compliment
Likes
Everybody
" 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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Work
Distance
Here
" That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one. "
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Support
Government
Now
" The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty. "
Abraham Lincoln
Liberty
Wolf
Thanks
" 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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Power
Tyranny
Life
" The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature. "
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Angels
Living
Memory
" Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. "
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Power
Character
Men
" The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied. "
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Right
Southern
People