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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

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No man was to be eulogized for what he did; or censured for what he did or did not do. All of us are the children of conditions, of circumstances, of ...more

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

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Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when ...more

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Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

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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