"Be excellent and party on dudes."
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"A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad."
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"There was the strangest combination of church influence against me. Baker is a Campbellite; and therefore, as I suppose with few exceptions, got all of that Church. My wife had some relations in the Presbyterian churches, and some in the Episcopal churches; and therefore, wherever it would tell, I was set down as either one or the other, while it was everywhere contended that no Christian ought to vote for me because I belonged to no Church, and was suspected of being a Deist and had talked of fighting a duel."
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"Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools."
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"I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day."
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"In order to win a man to your cause, you must first reach his heart, the great high road to his reason."
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"No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained."
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"Never change horses in midstream."
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"The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything."
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"I think I stand where that man stands."
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"I could not sleep when I got on the hunt for an idea, until I had caught it. This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck with me."
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"The world shall know that I will keep my faith to friends and enemies, come what will."
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"Did Stanton say I was a damned fool? Then I dare say I must be one, for Stanton is generally right and he always says what he means."
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"And you are entirely free from head-ache? That is good -- good -- considering it is the first spring you have been free from it since we were acquainted. I am afraid you will get so well, and fat, and young, as to be wanting to marry again."
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"The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers."
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"We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There is no permanent class of hired laborers amongst us. Twenty-five years ago, I was a hired laborer. The hired laborer of yesterday, labors on his own account today; and will hire others to labor for him tomorrow."
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"All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy."
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"Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country from New England to Louisiana, they are neither peculiar to the eternal snows of the former nor the burning suns of the latter; they are not the creature of climate, neither are they confined to the slaveholding or the non-slaveholding States. Alike they spring up among the pleasure-hunting masters of Southern slaves, and the order-loving citizens of the land of steady habits. Whatever then their cause may be, it is common to the whole country."
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"I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone."
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"...I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea for which that struggle was made, and I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this, his almost chosen people, for perpetuating the object of that great struggle."
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