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Let us have faith that Right makes Might and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

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The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their inst...more

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Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

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I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

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Sir, 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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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.

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You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!