Character is like a tree and reputation like its 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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Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

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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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Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

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You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.

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It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

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That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

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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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