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"I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source."
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"The world might stop in ten minutes; meanwhile, we are to go on doing our duty. The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though our world might last a hundred years."
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"He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So every true soul ever was, ever is, and ever will be. There is nothing little to the really great in spirit."
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"When we carry out our "religious duties" we are like people digging channels in a waterless land, in order that when at last water comes, it may find them ready."
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"Everything in the society that is wrong is our responsibility to fix."
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"Life has its demands from every one of us who live on planet earth."
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"She had her reward! - that reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious - the eternal reward of knowing that she had done her duty."
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"I shall never ask never refuse nor ever resign an office."
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"Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical."
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"May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense."
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"Duty was not untinged by ambition."
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"Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide."
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"If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country."
Nation
"Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects."
Legal
"Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs."
Man
"If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet."
Man
"I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it."
Constitution
"There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws."
Law
"It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word."
Mind
"The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people."
Government
"Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North."
Slavery
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