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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject ...more

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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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It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by he...more

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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercis...more

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You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

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The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

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God must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them.

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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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Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other resp...more

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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the re...more

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The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.