"I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be."
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"Faith is not believing that God can, but that God will."
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"Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible."
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"What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself."
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"In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong."
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"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world."
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"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being."
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"I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known."
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"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."
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"The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes."
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"I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down."
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"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country."
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"A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure."
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"No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent."
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"I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens."
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"In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it."
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"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just."
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"I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day."
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"There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending."
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"If you love something, set it free."
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