"The damnest scoundrel that ever lived, but in the infinite mercy of Providence... also the damnest fool."
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"Do I not damage my enemies after i make them my close friends?"
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"Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman."
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"The Constitution is not a suicide pact."
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"Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and confirm that you didn't do the assigned readings before the strategic planning retreat."
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"You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid."
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"The foregoing history may not be precisely accurate in every particular; but I am sure it is sufficiently so, for all the uses I shall attempt to make of it, and in it, we have before us, the chief material enabling us to correctly judge whether the repeal of the Missouri Compromise is right or wrong."
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"Senator Douglas holds, we know, that a man may rightfully be wiser today than he was yesterday - that he may rightfully change when he finds himself wrong. But can we, for that reason, run ahead, and infer that he will make any particular change, of which he, himself, has given no intimation?"
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"I have really got it into my head to try to be United States Senator, and, if I could have your support, my chances would be reasonably good. But I know, and acknowledge, that you have as just claims to the place as I have; and therefore I cannot ask you to yield to me, if you are thinking of becoming a candidate, yourself. If, however, you are not, then I should like to be remembered affectionately by you; and also to have you make a mark for me with the Anti-Nebraska members down your way."
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"Nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face, nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting out."
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"A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country can not do this. They can but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them."
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"I believe I shall never be old enough to speak without embarrassment when I have nothing to talk about."
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"I have a congenital aversion to failure."
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"Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered."
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"Singular indeed the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise the voice of complaint."
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"Glory to God in the highest, Ohio has saved the Nation."
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"As the problems are new, we must disenthrall ourselves from the past."
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"If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'."
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"I never did ask more, nor ever was willing to accept less, than for all the States, and the people thereof, to take and hold their places, and their rights, in the Union, under the Constitution of the United States. For this alone have I felt authorized to struggle; and I seek neither more nor less now."
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"If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing on an average one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes -- no other marks or brands recollected."
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