"We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong."
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"Let none falter who thinks he is right, and we may succeed. But if, after all, we shall fail, be it so: we still shall have the proud consolation of saying to our consciences, and to the departed shade of our country's freedom, that the cause approved of our judgment and adored of our hearts, in disaster, in chains, in torture, in death, we never faltered in defending."
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"Nevertheless, amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance on God, knowing that all would go well, and that He would decide for the right."
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"He has got the slows, Mr. Blair."
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"The Lord spared the fitten and the rest he seen fitten to die."
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"I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one of them, more than to yourself."
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"You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you; but, no matter. Fight you, then exclusively to save the Union."
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"Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time."
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"Towering genius distains a beaten path."
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"I cannot bring myself to believe that any human being lives who would do me any harm."
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"I am not a very sentimental man; and the best sentiment I can think of is, that if you collect the signatures of all persons who are no less distinguished than I, you will have a very undistinguishing mass of names."
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"Too many piglets not enough tits."
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"Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go."
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"Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of another man, neither that other man nor anybody else has a right to object."
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"If it were not for my firm belief in an overruling Providence, it would be difficult for me, in the midst of such complications of affairs, to keep my reason on its seat. But I am confident that the Almighty has His plans, and will work them out; and, whether we see it or not, they will be the best for us."
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"I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present."
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"You say men ought to be hung for the way they are executing the law; I say the way it is being executed is quite as good as any of its antecedents. It is being executed in the precise way which was intended from the first, else why does no Nebraska man express astonishment or condemnation? Poor Reeder is the only public man who has been silly enough to believe that anything like fairness was ever intended, and he has been bravely undeceived."
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"I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration."
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"Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away."
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"If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised by the other."
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