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"How few, since the foundation of the world, have found themselves in a position environed with public perils so numerous, oppressed with responsibilities so high and solemn, as yourself!"
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"I am doing my best to find it. I will find it before the public finds it. I will get out of it before it's too late. The reason I will do that is because that's what I'm paid to do."

"I think that the public is in and the public is in big, and the public is not, I don't think going to pull out because the public knows what I said about 1987."

"There would probably be less of a frenzy among the French public."

"Somebody like me wouldn't have gone on to the Trisha show because I already had a public profile."

"Cable would not translate into the public radio universe."

"I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this."

"Well, we've made huge strides since the 1990 World Cup, USA '94, and obviously since '98. Unfortunately, those strides only register with the public once every four years."
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"Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind."


"Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God."


"Can you look forward to the future of our country and imagine any state of things in which, with slavery still existing, we should be assured of permanent peace? I cannot."


"It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men."


"Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections."


"The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and comfort all the rebels of the South and fails to exercise it?"


"There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within."


"Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens."


"Of the unjust rights which in virtue of this ceremony an iniquitous law gives me over the person and property of another, I cannot legally, but I can morally, divest myself."
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