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As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and Laws, let every Americ...more

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I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.

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No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enoug...more

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My greatest concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are concerned with your failure.

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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly...more

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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 governm...more

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A house divided cannot stand.

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in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

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I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the very sternest necessity can ever justify it. A...more

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My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing ...more

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We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Con...more

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Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

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If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might in a moral point of view ju...more