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But for that Book, we could not know right from wrong.

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No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them; but in this case, favour to me,would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it.

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Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.

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The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.

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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

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I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

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I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.

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I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.

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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

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In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good.

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The petition of persons under eighteen, praying that I would free all slave children, and the heading of which petition it appears you wrote, was handed me a few days since by Senator Sumner. Please tell these little people I am very glad their young hearts are so full of just and generous sympathy, and that, while I have not the power to grant all they ask, I trust they will remember that God has, and that, as it seems, He wills to do it.

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I turn, then, and look to the American people and to that God who has never forsaken them.

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Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

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The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.

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When we were the political slaves of King George, and wanted to be free, we called the maxim that "all men are created equal" a self evident truth; but now when we have grown fat, and have lost all dread of being slaves ourselves, we have become so greedy to be masters that we call the same maxim "a self evident lie" The fourth of July has not quite dwindled away; it is still a great day-for burning fire-crackers!!!

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Ready are we all to cry out and ascribe motives when our toes are pinched.

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Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

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The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil.

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[T]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there, that to-day, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression.

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