"As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you."
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"The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends."
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"All creation is a mine, and every man a miner."
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"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference."
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"This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions."
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"Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind."
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"Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder."
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"I cannot imagine anyone looking at the sky and denying God."
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"All that harms labor is treason to America."
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"Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged."
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"We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom."
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"Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of our great prosperity. There is something back of these, entwining itself more closely about the human heart. That something, is the principle of "Liberty to all" the principle that clears the path for all-gives hope to all-and, by consequence, enterprize [sic], and industry to all."
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"Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation."
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"In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions."
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"In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man."
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"He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that he is penetrating, so far as lies in his power, the human soul, and eradicating the light of reason and the love of liberty, when he is in every possible way preparing the public mind, by his vast influence, for making the institution of slavery perpetual and national."
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"In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not."
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"Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation."
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"President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an associate. "You should try to destroy them." "Am I not destroying my enemies," Lincoln gently replied, "when I make them my friends?""
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"War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible."
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