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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

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The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

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All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

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That we 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 government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

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I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

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Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

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I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

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With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

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To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

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