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... determination . As he had no money with which to buy a drove for himself he did the next best thing ; this was to induce the neighboring farmers to allow him to drive their cattle to market on a commission plan . By this one act the ...
... determination . As he had no money with which to buy a drove for himself he did the next best thing ; this was to induce the neighboring farmers to allow him to drive their cattle to market on a commission plan . By this one act the ...
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... determined to earn all that he could , and spend less than he earned . When he arrived at the age of fif- teen he remove to Troy , and entered the grocery store of one of his brothers . Until eighteen years of age he remained here as a ...
... determined to earn all that he could , and spend less than he earned . When he arrived at the age of fif- teen he remove to Troy , and entered the grocery store of one of his brothers . Until eighteen years of age he remained here as a ...
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... determination . It was then , much as it it is now , boys like to spend their money and have a good time , as well as they do now ; but it was a common saying in th neighborhood where he lived , that when Corneel . Vanderbilt concludes ...
... determination . It was then , much as it it is now , boys like to spend their money and have a good time , as well as they do now ; but it was a common saying in th neighborhood where he lived , that when Corneel . Vanderbilt concludes ...
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... determined early in life to become a wealthy and in- fluential man . To determine to do anything is half the battle . " Doubt indulged becomes doubt realized . " " To think a thing impossible is to make it so . " " Courage is victory ...
... determined early in life to become a wealthy and in- fluential man . To determine to do anything is half the battle . " Doubt indulged becomes doubt realized . " " To think a thing impossible is to make it so . " " Courage is victory ...
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... determined to make for himself here a record for honesty , and so well did he succeed , that the next year he started busi- ness for himself , his principle capital being his reputa- tion and acknowledged ability . He developed a system ...
... determined to make for himself here a record for honesty , and so well did he succeed , that the next year he started busi- ness for himself , his principle capital being his reputa- tion and acknowledged ability . He developed a system ...
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Page 233 - Liberty first and Union afterwards ; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable.
Page 228 - When the mariner has been tossed for many days in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have driven him from his true course.
Page 318 - I hold that, notwithstanding all this, there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man.
Page 229 - Mr. President, I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts. She needs none. There she is: behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history : the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston and Concord and Lexington and Bunker Hill, and there they will remain forever.
Page 321 - It matters not what way the Supreme Court may hereafter decide as to the abstract question whether slavery may or may not go into a Territory under the Constitution, the people have the lawful means to introduce it or exclude it as they please, for the reason that slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations.
Page 318 - I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and the black races. There is a physical difference between the two, which in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality; and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position.
Page 325 - Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.
Page 325 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Page 317 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 278 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery — subordination to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first in the history of the world based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.