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- He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that…
- We believe that the spreading out and perpetuity of the institution of slavery impairs the general welfare. We believe - nay, we know, that that…
- My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I...fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen…
- During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel…
- But I must add that the U.S. government must not, as by this order, undertake to run the churches. When an individual, in a church…
- All creation is a mine, and every man a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about it, including himself…
- No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.
- 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…
- When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest in ferreting out…
- What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out…
- Our adversaries [ the Confederate States of America ] have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one penned by Jefferson,…
- I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the…
- I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of.
- No State, upon it own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally nothing. I therefore…
- By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a…
- I told myself, "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means." So I left my situation in Springfield,…
- Senator [Stephen] Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for years past, have…
- Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human…
- Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will be remembered long…
- When I got him out he was near froze solid and shivering. He was shaking so hard that I wasted half a glass of whiskey…
- Being President is like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail... A man in the crowd asked…
- You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more…
- Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.
- While I have often said that all men out to be free, yet I would allow those colored persons to be slaves who want to…
- So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist force, employed for…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
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- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
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