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You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

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When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

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Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least pa...more

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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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What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.[Lincoln's maxim and philosophy]

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I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the hea...more

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The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both *may* be, and one *must* be, wrong. God ...more

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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject ...more

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The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

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My dear Sir.Yours of the 13th. is just received. My engagements are such that I can not, at any very early day, visit Rock-Island, to deliver a lectur...more

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The democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing when in conflict with another man's right of property...This is a world o...more