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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Source: Lincoln Observed: The Civil War Dispatches of Noah Brooks edited by Michael Burlingame
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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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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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Democracy   
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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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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.
Subject:
Peace   
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Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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Flower   
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The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
Subject:
Freedom   
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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
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Plan   
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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine.
Subject:
Boredom   
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Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
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Principle   
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