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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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All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
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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 in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.
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Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ’Truth is the daughter of Time.’
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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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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ’Truth is the daughter of Time.’
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
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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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My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
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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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The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
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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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I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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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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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.