Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
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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.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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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.
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Government   
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Citizen   
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
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Books   
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Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
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Conflict   
Common Sense   
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Work: in a letter to J. M. Cutts, October 26, 1863
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What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
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I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
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Government   
Honesty   
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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
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Decisions   
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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.
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Reality   
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Citizen   
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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.
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Employment   
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Work: Lincoln's First Annual Message to Congress, December 3, 1861.
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You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
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Advice   
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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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Confidence   
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Citizen   
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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
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Democracy   
War   
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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
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Responsibility   
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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
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Justice   
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Work: speech in Washington D.C., 1865
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
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Character   
Courage   
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What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
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Appearance & Attitudes   
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