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" You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. "

Abraham Lincoln

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

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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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" Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition. "

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" Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them. "

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" When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say. "

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" 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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" I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay. "

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" I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman's skillet and the man's ax-helve. "

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" Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar. "

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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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" In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against 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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" 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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" It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe. "

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" 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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" Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this. "

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" These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel. "

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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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" 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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" Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. "

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" With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. "

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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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" We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it. "

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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. "

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" A house divided against itself cannot stand. "

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" Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure. "

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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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" Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible. "

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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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