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" There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law. "

Abraham Lincoln

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" My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all. "

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

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" Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it. "

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" If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. "

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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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" 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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" No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained. "

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" In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. "

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

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" Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. "

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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 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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" I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day. "

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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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" Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed. "

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" That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular. "

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" If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it. "

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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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" 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. "

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" He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. "

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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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" If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted. "

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" By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle? "

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" I am a slow walker, but I never walk back. "

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" If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance. "

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" Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. "

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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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" Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. "

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