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Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.

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No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.

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Twenty-two years ago Judge [then-Senator Stephen] Douglas and I first became acquainted. We were both young then; he a trifle younger than I. Even then, we were both ambitious; I, perhaps, quite as much so as he. With me, the race of ambition has been a failure--a flat failure; with him it has been one of splendid success.

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The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.

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I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.

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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

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I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything?

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I will either be America's greatest president or its last.

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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

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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 demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?

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We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

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Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated.

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Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

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Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

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Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.

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If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

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Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me

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As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.

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