"Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it."
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"If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again."
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"You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to the regions of darkness and despair to be tormented forever; but you will never get me to support a measure which I believe to be wrong, although by doing so I may accomplish that which I believe to be right."
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"I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice."
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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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"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 doubt that our country will finally come through safe and undivided. But do not misunderstand me... I do not rely on the patriotism of our people... the bravery and devotion of the boys in blue... (or) the loyalty and skill of our generals... But the God of our fathers, Who raised up this country to be the refuge and asylum of the oppressed and downtrodden of all nations, will not let it perish now. I may not live to see it... I do not expect to see it, but God will bring us through safe."
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"I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence, I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it."
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"Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention."
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"In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free."
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"Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance..."
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"I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else."
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"I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else."
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"The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence; never put off until tomorrow what you can do today."
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"If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution."
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"My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it."
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"Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship."
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"Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet."
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"You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!"
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"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."
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