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| Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice | | Opinions | |
| Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. He who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or decisions possible or impossible to execute. | | Uncategorized | |
| Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite. | | Uncategorized | |
| Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar | | Uncategorized | |
| Republicans are the party of my people, created for my people, | | Uncategorized | |
| Resolve to be honest at all events: and if in your judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer. Choose some other occupation. | | Uncategorized | |
| Seriously, I do not think I fit for the presidency. | | Uncategorized | |
| Singular indeed the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise the voice of complaint | | Uncategorized | |
| 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 | | God | |
| Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature -- opposition to it on his love of justice. | | Uncategorized | |
| Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature -- opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow. | | Uncategorized | |
| So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything. | | Uncategorized | |
| Something in [the] Declaration giving liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but hope to the world for all future time. | | Uncategorized | |
| Sorrow comes to all...Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better and yet you are sure to be happy again. | | Uncategorized | |
| Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong. | | Right | |
| Such will be a great lesson of peace; teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take by a war; teaching all the folly of being the beginners of a war | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
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