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"If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from the dangerous presence of slavery; and, at the same time, in restoring a captive people to their long-lost father-land, with bright prospects for the future; and this too, so gradually, that neither races nor individuals shall have suffered by the change, it will indeed be a glorious consummation."

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"I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent the Divine will. I am sure that either the one or the other class is mistaken in that belief, and perhaps in some respects both."

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"I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia."

War Slavery Littles

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"Negroes, like other people, act upon motives. Why should they do anything for us, if we will do nothing for them? If they stake their lives for us, they must be prompted by the strongest motive, even the promise of freedom. And the promise being made, must be kept."

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"I freely acknowledge myself the servant of the people, according to the bond of service - the United States Constitution; and that, as such, I am responsible to them."

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"Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way."

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"If we know where we are and something about how we got there, we might see where we are trending - and if the outcomes which lie naturally in our course are unacceptable, to make timely change."

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"People are just as happy as they choose to be."

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"We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued."

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"Bring me Longstreet's head on a platter and the war will be over"

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"I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks.... My father ... removed from Kentucky to ... Indiana, in my eighth year.... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up.... Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher ... but that was all."

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"It's bad. It's damned bad."

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"confused and Stunned, like a duck hit on the head."

Confused War Ducks

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"I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses."

Horse War Civil War

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"I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game."

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"Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed."

War People Speech

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"Never stir up litigation, a worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this, who can be more nearly a fiend than he who habitually overhauls the register of deeds in search of defects in titles, whereon to stir up strife, and put money in his pocket?"

Men Pockets Titles

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"Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?"

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"Submitted to the Sec. of War. On principle I dislike an oath which requires a man to swear he has not done wrong. It rejects the Christian principle of forgiveness on terms of repentance. I think it is enough if the man does no wrong hereafter."

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"I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it."

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