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In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
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Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
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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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Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.
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The assertion that ’all men are created equal’ was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
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The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
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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 lose, the last best hope of earth.
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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
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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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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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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.
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Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
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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.