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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
Some day I shall be President.
Four score 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.
The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
Public opinion in this country is everything.
I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew.
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
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