"When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees."
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"Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories."
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"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present."
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"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts."
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"If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything."
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"The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom."
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"I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."
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"We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it."
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"Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality... Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism."
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"If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854."
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"The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land."
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand."
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"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar."
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"When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say."
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"As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government."
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"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."
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"Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out."
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"That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well."
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"I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence."
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"There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races... A separation of the races is the only perfect preventive of amalgamation, but as an immediate separation is impossible, the next best thing is to keep them apart where they are not already together. If white and black people never get together in Kansas, they will never mix blood in Kansas..."
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