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" When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. "

Abraham Lincoln

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" The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.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

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" 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. "

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" Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected. "

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" I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause. "

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" I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. "

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" If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. "

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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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" 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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" It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. "

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" Never regret what you don't write. "

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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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" 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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" Avoid popularity if you would have peace. "

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" 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. "

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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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" I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow. "

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" I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began. "

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

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" Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before. "

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

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" In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home. "

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" He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make. "

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" The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. "

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" 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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" Don't swap horses in crossing a stream. "

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" Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them. "

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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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" Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. "

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" Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. "

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