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My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.

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Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.

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Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

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No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own - my creators - not man's. I shall never sink the rights of mankind to the malice, wrong, or avarice of another's wishes, though those wishes come to me in the relation of client and attorney.

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No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

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Such a man the times have demanded, and such, in the providence of God was given us. But he is gone. Let us strive to deserve, as far as mortals may, the continued care of Divine Providence, trusting that, in future national emergencies, He will not fail to provide us the instruments of safety and security.

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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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We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.

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A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

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I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

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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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As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.

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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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Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.

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I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.

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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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A man's legs must be long enough to reach the ground.

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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

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