QUOTES by Benjamin Lincoln
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"Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built."
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"The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed."
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"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business."
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"Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed."
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"These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel."
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"With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die."
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"I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him."
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"In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home."
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"I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others."
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"I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free."
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"We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this."
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"I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman's skillet and the man's ax-helve."
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"If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied."
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"He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it."
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"If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned."
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"I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause."
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"The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded."
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"It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence."
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"Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything."
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"I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up."
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"The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application."
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"A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me."
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"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next."
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"Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold."
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"If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it."
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"We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'"
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"There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'"
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"Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before."
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"I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other."
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"I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it."
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"I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise."
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"If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it."
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"We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us."
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"The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person."
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"With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed."
Quote by -Benjamin Lincoln