QUOTES by Benjamin Lincoln
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"I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind."
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"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."
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"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth."
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"No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent."
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"No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens."
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"Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors."
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"Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it."
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"If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance."
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"The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them."
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"I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion."
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"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."
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"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."
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"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough."
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"A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others."
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"I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union."
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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, to bind up the nation's wounds."
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"The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him."
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"Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us."
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"I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day."
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"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."
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"Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition."
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"Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them."
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"When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees."
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"The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions."
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"Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it."
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"There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury."
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"When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism."
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"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth."
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"How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg."
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"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all."
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"Four score 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."
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"I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."
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"The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence."
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"Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth."
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"I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side."
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"I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me."
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