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When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.
These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
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.
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
Fourscore 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.