I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
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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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Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
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Faith   
Duty   
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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
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Truth   
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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Vices   
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
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Genius   
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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.
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Conversation   
Business   
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You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
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Effort   
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To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
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Democracy   
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To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
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Character   
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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
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Peace   
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...Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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Democracy   
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
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Education   
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
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Thinking   
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I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.
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Difficulty   
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Work: Lincoln Observed: The Civil War Dispatches of Noah Brooks edited by Michael Burlingame
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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Laws   
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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Marriage   
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Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
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Perseverance   
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Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed.
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Laws   
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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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Failure   
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