Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.
... That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom.
It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
Public opinion though often formed upon a wrong basis yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.
God must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them.
I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
The things I want to know are in books my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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.
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be it...
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.
Democracy is the government of the people by the people for the people.
A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery ext...
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or ex...
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