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Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

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Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

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I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

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Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

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We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

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I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

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The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

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In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

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