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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

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Lets 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 by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

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The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

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What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

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I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

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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 exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

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Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

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Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

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

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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

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If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

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Public opinion in this country is everything.

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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

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