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In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for, and against the ...more

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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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It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

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If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

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Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal hu...more

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We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that governm...more

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With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are...more

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I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for 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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To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.

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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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We trust sir that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.

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Without the assistance of the Divine Being ... I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.