"The Almighty has His own purposes."
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"Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other."
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"War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war."
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"It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion."
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"The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty"
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"If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it."
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"I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist."
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"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business."
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"As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you."
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"I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country."
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"I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me."
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"You are green, it is true; but they are green also. You are all green alike."
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"My God! My God! What will the country say?"
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"You think slavery is right and ought to be extended; while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us."
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"For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war."
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"We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing."
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"Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue."
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"The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing."
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"God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time."
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"One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended."
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