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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 ...more

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When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

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

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I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but holding it a sound maxim, that it is better to be only sometimes right, than at all times wrong, s...more

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. . . that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not peris...more