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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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I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

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It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by he...more

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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 ...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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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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The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

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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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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meannesses for the public good.

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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.