"Anybody will do for you, but not for me."
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"Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever-it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself."
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"Money possesses no value to the state other than that given to it by circulation."
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"Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are."
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"The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part of thee."
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"The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes."
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"I couldn't be two faced. If I had two faces, I wouldn't wear this one."
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"Whether you look for the good or look for the bad in a person, you'll find it." A. Lincoln"
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"With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have a great respect for the semicolin; it's a useful little chap"
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"I am nothing, truth is everything."
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"Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)"
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"Nothing will divert me from my purpose."
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"Everybody likes compliment."
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"To lead, you must touch men's hearts."
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"Your rights end where my nose begins."
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"And while it has not pleased the Almighty to bless us with a return of peace, we can but press on, guided by the best light He gives, trusting that in His own good time, and wise way, all will yet be well."
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"We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed."
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"We shall meanly lose or nobly save the last hope of earth."
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"Of our political revolution of '76, we all are justly proud. It has given us a degree of political freedom, far exceeding that of any other nation of the earth. In it the world has found a solution of the long mooted problem, as to the capability of man to govern himself. In it was the germ which has vegetated, and still is to grow and expand into the universal liberty of mankind."
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"It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards."
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