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" A house divided against itself cannot stand. "
Abraham Lincoln
House
Cannot
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" I can make more generals, but horses cost money. "
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" I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman's skillet and the man's ax-helve. "
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" The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. "
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" The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them. "
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" Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech. "
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" Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? "
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" Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. "
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First
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" If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? "
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" A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general. "
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Right
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" I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other. "
Abraham Lincoln
Man
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" Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure. "
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Choose
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" Never regret what you don't write. "
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Never Regret
Never
You
" Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder. "
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Nothing
Wonder
New
" The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use. "
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Great
Men
Separation
" I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. "
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Doing
Mean
Know
" I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. "
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Dog
Cat
Care
" I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man? "
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Man
Men
Know
" Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. "
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Feel
Arguing
Him
" Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything. "
Abraham Lincoln
Single
Will
Agreement
" Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold. "
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Place
Men
Loving
" This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. "
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Grow
Exercise
Government
" To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary. "
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Peaceful
Only
Victory
" Important principles may, and must, be inflexible. "
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Must
May
Principles
" Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old. "
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Every
Live
" Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets. "
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Rightful
Bullets
Ballots
" If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted. "
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People
Government
Character
" My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say. "
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Virginia
Second
Say
" Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. "
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Generation
Down
Honor
" Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. "
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Own