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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

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All I have learned, I learned from books.

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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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For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general ...more

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The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.

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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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A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already ...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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The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.