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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

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We cannot escape history.

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It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.

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Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

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Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

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Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.

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Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.

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The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.

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When you lack interest in the case the job will very likely lack skill and diligence in the performance.

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The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This our convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions, and they resolved to so frame the constitution that no man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.

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If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.

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Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.

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You can always lie to others and hide your actions from them... but you can not fool yourself

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Your rights end where my nose begins.

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Don't judge a man by the size of his ego or his heart, but on the epicness of his beard and the beautiful woman on his arm

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I never tire of reading Tom Paine.

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The evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond, and the surrender of the principal insurgent army, give hope of a righteous and speedy peace whose joyous expression can not be restrained. In the midst of this, however, He, from Whom all blessings flow, must not be forgotten. A call for a national thanksgiving is being prepared, and will be duly promulgated.

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Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung

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In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.

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We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued.

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