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Things may come to those who wait, but only things left by those who hustle.

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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

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In the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln did not hesitate to dispel the notion that he was a champion of racial equality 'I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality.'

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The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.

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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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Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people Is there any better or equal hope in the world

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Never regret what you don't write.

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I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

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The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just it shall not deter me.

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We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own, intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us

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The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

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I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal.

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In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words 'And this, too, shall pass away. How much it expresses How chastening in the hour of pride how consoling in the depth of affliction Many versions of this story exist. Another one is 'The Sultan asked for a Signet motto, that should hold good for Adversity or Prosperity. Solomon gave him, 'This also shall pass away.' Edward Fitzgerald, Polonius A Collection of Wise Saws and Modern Instances, item 112, p. 80 (1901). The words In neez bogzarad, which can be translated, 'This also shall pass,' appear in the Diven of the twelfth century Persian poet and philosopher, Sana'I of Ghaznl, ed. Mazahir Musaffa, p. 92 (1957).

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A lawyer's advice is his stock and trade.

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I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.

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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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I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

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With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

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You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

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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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I feel somewhat like the boy in Kentucky who stubbed his toe while running to see his sweetheart. The boy said he was too big to cry, and far too badly hurt to laugh.

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