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The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization. The liquor seller is simply and only a privileged malefactor - a criminal.

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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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His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.

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Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

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There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.

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Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.

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I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views.

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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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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

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We will make converts day by day; we will grow strong by the violence and injustice of our adversaries. And, unless truth be a mockery and justice a hollow lie, we will be in the majority after a while.

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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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in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

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Too big to cry too young to laugh.

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Never let your correspondence fall behind.

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The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for allcommanders.

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Labor is the true standard of value.

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But I must add that the U.S. government must not, as by this order, undertake to run the churches. When an individual, in a church or out of it, becomes dangerous to the public interest, he must be checked; but let the churches, as such take care of themselves. It will not do for the U.S. to appoint Trustees, Supervisors, or other agents for the churches.

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I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one of them, more than to yourself.

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I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a mouth to receive bread, hands to feed it, and his hand has a right to carry bread to his mouth without controversy.

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Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

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