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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 strength of a nation lies in the homes of its people.

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I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.

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...I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea for which that struggle was made, and I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this, his almost chosen people, for perpetuating the object of that great struggle.

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Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other right.

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Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

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A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability.

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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

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We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.

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Nothing will divert me from my purpose.

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We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose. If we fail, it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.

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Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

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All creation is a mine, and every man a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about it, including himself ... are the infinitely various "leads" from which, man, from the first, was to dig out his destiny.

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I never tire of reading Tom Paine.

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I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

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I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

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We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.

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Too many piglets not enough tits.

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All I have learned, I learned from books.

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