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A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.

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This is essentially a people's contest... whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from all shoulders - to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all - to afford all, an unfettered start and a fair chance, in the race of life.

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Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.

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With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have a great respect for the semicolin; it's a useful little chap

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It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved.

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It's bad. It's damned bad.

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And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.

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Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

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Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers.

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The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea.

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Faith is not believing that God can, but that God will.

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My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.

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Seriously, I do not think I am fit for the Presidency.

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I am busily engaged in study of the Bible.

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I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main matterfor that I have determined for myself.

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In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he [the president] is the representative of the people. He is elected by them, as well as congress is. But can he, in the nature [of] things, know the wants of the people, as well as three hundred other men, coming from all the various localities of the nation? If so, where is the propriety of having a congress?

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Towering genius distains a beaten path.

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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

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Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest. Among the most satisfying proofs of this conviction is the hearty devotion everywhere exhibited by our schools and colleges to the national cause.

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