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- Brave
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.
- Great
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Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.
- Fruit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
- Contests
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- Nov 07, 2020
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
- Blue
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
- Devotion
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020