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- The President responded very impressively, saying that he was deeply sensible of his need of Divine assistance. He had sometime thought that perhaps he might…
- I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's…
- God bless the Methodist Church - bless all the churches - and blessed be God, Who, in this our great trial, giveth us the churches.
- In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveris.…
- We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat…
- I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this…
- No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.
- Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.
- Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the first only is…
- A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad.
- When we were the political slaves of King George, and wanted to be free, we called the maxim that "all men are created equal" a…
- Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of our great prosperity.…
- To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is…
- And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonnet, they…
- Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
- It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government,…
- We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great…
- There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the…
- The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one…
- So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!
- Negro equality, Fudge!! How long in the Government of a God great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves…
- The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance. We hoped for…
- Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.
- I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my…
- God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises.
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