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It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.

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Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.

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While I have often said that all men out to be free, yet I would allow those colored persons to be slaves who want to be; and next to them those white persons who argue in favor of making other people slaves. I am in favor of giving an opportunity to such white men to try it on for themselves.

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What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.

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The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.

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You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed.

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I am the President of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me these votes.

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I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.

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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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That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

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You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

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We, on our side, are praying to Him to give us victory, because we believe we are right; but those on the other side pray to Him, look for victory, believing they are right. What must He think of us?

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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.

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We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

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Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief.

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Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.

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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

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God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

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If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this.

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You must think I am a high-priced man.... Fifteen dollars is enough for the job. I send you a receipt for fifteen dollars, and return to you a ten-dollar bill.

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