"If there is a worse place than Hell, I am in it."
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"Writing is the great invention of the world."
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"What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree."
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"I was born and have ever remaind [sic] in the most humble walks of life."
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"It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want."
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"Everybody appreciates a compliment."
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"My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues."
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"Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed."
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"While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election; and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for having directed my countrymen to a right conclusion, as I think, for their own good, it adds nothing to my satisfaction that any other man may be disappointed or pained by the result."
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"The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also. With a reliance on Providence, all the more firm and earnest, let us proceed in the great task which events have devolved upon us."
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"A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man."
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"And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God."
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"I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number."
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"My policy is to have no policy."
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"It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to mean no more than that an army is better directed by a single mind, though inferior, than by two superior ones at variance and cross-purposes with each other."
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"Let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it. Let north and south - let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving. We shall have so saved it, that the succeeding millions of free happy people, the world over, shall rise up, and call us blessed, to the latest generations."
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"I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else."
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"The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded."
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"I will learn, the opportunity will come."
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"The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another mans right of property. Republicans, on the contrary, are for both the man and the dollar; but in cases of conflict, the man before the dollar."
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