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A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.

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Cortissoz was art critic of the New York Herald Tribune.

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I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

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It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute political power.

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

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There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races... A separation of the races is the only perfect preventive of amalgamation, but as an immediate separation is impossible, the next best thing is to keep them apart where they are not already together. If white and black people never get together in Kansas, they will never mix blood in Kansas...

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He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that he is penetrating, so far as lies in his power, the human soul, and eradicating the light of reason and the love of liberty, when he is in every possible way preparing the public mind, by his vast influence, for making the institution of slavery perpetual and national.

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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

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One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.

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To read in the Bible, as the word of God himself, that "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, ["] and to preach there-from that, "In the sweat of other mans faces shalt thou eat bread," to my mind can scarcely be reconciled with honest sincerity.

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This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.

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Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.

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I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.

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We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

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I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

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I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses.

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I was raised to farm work.

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

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Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of another man, neither that other man nor anybody else has a right to object.

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Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

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