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| I can not deny that all may be swept away. Broken by it, I, too, may be; bow to it I never will. The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause that we believe to be just; it shall not deter me. |
| Government; Politics |
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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 he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God. |
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| I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it |
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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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| I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me |
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| I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army |
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| I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me |
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| I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends. |
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| I do not allow myself to suppose that either the convention or the League have concluded to decide that I am either the greatest or the best man in America, but rather they have concluded it is not best to swap horses while crossing the river, and ha |
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| I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end |
| Doing Your Best |
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| I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. |
| Family; Self-knowledge |
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| I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. |
| Concern; Family |
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| I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. |
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| I fear explanations explanatory of things explained |
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| I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the sternest necessity can ever justify it. A government had better go to the extreme of toleration, than to do aught that could be construed into an interference with, or to jeopardize in any degree, the common rights of its citizens. |
| Freedom; Justice |
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| I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. |
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