“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 other business.”
Business“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.”
Government“It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.”
Great“I can make more generals, but horses cost money.”
Money“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.”
Men“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.”
Great“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
Good“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”
Freedom“Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.”
Men“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.”
Great“Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.”
Best“Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
Equality“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.”
Time“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.”
War“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.”
Government“I do the very best I know how - the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.”
Best“My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.”
Best“With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.”
God“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”
Great“There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'”
Time“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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