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- A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
- While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the…
- 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 am very glad indeed to see you to-night, and yet I will not say I thank you for this call, but I do most…
- The petition of persons under eighteen, praying that I would free all slave children, and the heading of which petition it appears you wrote, was…
- While we are grateful to all the brave men and officers for the events of the past few days, we should, above all, be very…
- Your good mother tells me you are feeling very badly in your new situation. Allow me to assure you it is a perfect certainty that…
- So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written…
- Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode is very simple,…
- I see a very dark cloud on America's horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome.
- None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing
- The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part…
- [T]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce…
- Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it…
- The President to-night has a dream:He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment…
- Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.
- I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
- It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
- I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
- Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things…
- If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any…
- I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against…
- Life is hard but so very beautiful
- I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.
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