"The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma."
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"With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die."
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"Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you."
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"If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance."
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"A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."
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"Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves muchthe higher consideration."
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"I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag."
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"We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot."
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"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth."
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"This is essentially a people's contest... whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from all shoulders - to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all - to afford all, an unfettered start and a fair chance, in the race of life."
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"I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side."
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"Freedom is the last, best hope of earth."
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"In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth."
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"I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back."
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"No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens."
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"No man is poor who has a Godly mother."
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"I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office."
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"Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed."
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"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty."
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"Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way."
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