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Page 111 - Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. If there be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it.
Page 199 - A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.
Page 117 - that he is not my equal in many respects — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas and the equal of every living man.
Page 104 - higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights. Nor is it denied that there is and probably always will be, a relation between labor and capital producing mutual benefits. The error is in assuming that the whole labor of the community exists within that relation.
Page 201 - You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.— Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September
Page 116 - he said: — My first impulse would be to free all the slaves and send them to Liberia, to their own native land. But a moment's reflection would convince me that whatever of high hope (as I think there is) there may be in this in the long run its sudden execution is impossible.
Page 185 - that All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years. He
Page 124 - others, shall reestablish a state government which shall be republican and in no wise contravening said oath, such shall be recognized as the true government of the state and the state shall receive thereunder the benefits of the constitutional provision which declares that "the United States shall guarantee to
Page 110 - You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect and defend it.'
Page 118 - he said: — I will say then that I am not nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races — that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people. The