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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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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

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

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

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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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. . . 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