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• "Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it."

• "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."

• "Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."

• "Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them."

• "I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me."


• "I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization."

• "Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."

• "The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me."

• "Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today."

• "In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this book."

• "The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity."

• "There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law."

• "If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage."

• "Stand with anybody that stands RIGHT. Stand with him while he is right and PART with him when he goes wrong."

• "There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite."