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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar

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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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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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My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

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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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If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

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In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was c...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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I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.