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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar

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When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

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If you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully

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It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly...more

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Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal hu...more

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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...more

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It is not in our forming battlements or bristling seacoasts, or our Army and Navy that makes America great - but rather our reliance in the law of lib...more

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What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.[Lincoln's maxim and philosophy]

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I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the hea...more

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The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both *may* be, and one *must* be, wrong. God ...more

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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 ...more

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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 ar...more

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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.