I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

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What is conservativism? Is it not the aherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

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I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

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It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

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I do not believe the Union will disolve, I believe it will become all one thing, or all the other.

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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

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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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I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

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