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" We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?' "

Abraham Lincoln

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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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" 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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" 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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" To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary. "

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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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" 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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" That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. "

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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" The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. "

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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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" Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. "

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

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" It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life. "

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" We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. "

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" The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use. "

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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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" The ballot is stronger than the bullet. "

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" I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. "

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" I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. "

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" A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me. "

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" You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time. "

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" I can make more generals, but horses cost money. "

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