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| My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Un ion without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. |
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| Military glory--the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood. |
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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 f inish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations. |
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| What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? |
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| Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature--opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal an tagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow. |
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| I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is a physical difference bet ween the two, which, in my judgement, will probably for ever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality; and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I ... am in favour of the race to which I belong having the superior position. |
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| Having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts. |
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| If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what you will, is the great high-road to his reason, and which, when once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing his judgment of the justice of your cause. |
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| The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts. |
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