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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. "
Abraham Lincoln
Constitution
Who
People
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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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" To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances. "
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" I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. "
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" The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. "
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" Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. "
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" We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it. "
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" If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat. "
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" I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay. "
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I Can
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" No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained. "
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Opinion
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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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" 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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He
" Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. "
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Mother
Her
Books
" 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
" Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. "
Abraham Lincoln
Stand
You
Feet
" 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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Time
Chance
Equal
" Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South. "
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Slavery
New
" With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds. "
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Finish
Charity
See
" 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. "
Abraham Lincoln
Power
Tyranny
Life
" 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
" Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth. "
Abraham Lincoln
Truth
Most
Lie
" I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. "
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Best
Flower
Me
" It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life. "
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Out
Life
Great
" 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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Great
Men
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" I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free. "
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Free
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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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Will
School
" 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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Way
Man
" I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up. "
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Drive
Storm
My Life
" No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. "
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Fight
Seem
Pet
" 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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" As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. "
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Would
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