"What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?"
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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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"You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was."
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"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain."
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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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"Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies."
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"Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers."
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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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"The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma."
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"Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure."
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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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"Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition."
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"The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed."
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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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"What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not...the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army...our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms..."
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"Lincoln called laughter "the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life.""
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"...Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man-this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore they must be placed in and inferior position...Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal."
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"From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide."
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"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth."
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"Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share."
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