"I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people."
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"Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises verywell, considering we never controlled him much."
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"I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since."
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"The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately."
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"Doubtless you begin to understand how disagreeable it is to me to do a thing arbitrarily, when it is unsatisfactory to others associated with me."
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"Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government."
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"The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for allcommanders."
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"My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education."
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"I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might have shared with me in the elevation, I would rather stand on that eminence, than wear the richest crown that ever pressed a monarch's brow."
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"The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you."
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"What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?"
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"Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief."
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"Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a personal friend of mine, wouldtell him that you have reason to believe he is mistaken."
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"Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation."
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"Capital has its proper place and is entitled to every protection. The wages of men should be recognized in the structure of and in the social order as more important than the wages of money [interest]."
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"A fellow once came to me to ask for an appointment as a minister abroad. Finding he could not get that, he came down to some more modest position. Finally, he asked to be made a tide-waiter. When he saw he could not get that, he asked me for an old pair of trousers. It is sometimes well to be humble."
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"Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech. And yet there is not a more fatal error to young lawyers than relying too much on speech-making. If any one, upon his rare powers of speaking, shall claim an exemption from the drudgery of the law, his case is a failure in advance."
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"No man has a right to judge Andrew Johnson in any respect who has not suffered as much and done as much as he for the Nation's sake."
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"If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already. It is but a small matter whether you read with anyone or not. I did not read with anyone. Get the books, and read and study them till you understand them in their principal features; and that is the main thing. It is of no consequence to be in a large town while you are reading. I read at New Salem, which never had three hundred people living in it. The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places."
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"Cortissoz was art critic of the New York Herald Tribune."
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