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If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
Abraham Lincolnverified·Address before the Washingtonian Temperance Society, Springfield, Illinois·February 22, 1842
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Free labour has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.
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Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people?
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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.
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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 finish the work we are in
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We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.
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There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored.
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The Constitution to which life was thus imparted contains within itself ample resources for its own preservation.
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The American system rests on the assertion of the equal right of every man to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, to freedom of conscience, to the culture and exercise of all his faculties.
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The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class,—it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.
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Education, then, is the safest and richest investment possible to man.
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A race cannot be purified from without.
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Teach them that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and is already asking for their trained, efficient forces.
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As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.
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In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were.
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No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family.
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Antarctic exploration is seldom as bad as you imagine, seldom as bad as it sounds.
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Furthermore, Friendship seems to be the bond of Social Communities, and legislators seem to be more anxious to secure it than Justice even.
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The brain can be trained, as the hand and eye can be trained; it can be made as obedient as a sporting dog, and by similar methods.
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The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.
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The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoilt, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your career.
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On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.
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To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.
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But through the process of amendment, interpretation and court decision I have finally been included in “We, the people.”
Barbara Jordanverified·Statement in the House Judiciary Committee's impeachment inquiry·July 25, 1974
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No political party can long pursue advantage at the expense of public honor or by rude and indecent methods without protest and fatal disaffection in its own body.