If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

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How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

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Hypocrite The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

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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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All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

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In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

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Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

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Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

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