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"The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied."
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"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."

"A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards."

"I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day."

"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

"You don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets than the life of citizens always do that every day."
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"Do not worry eat three square meals a day say your prayers be courteous to your creditors keep your digestion good exercise go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy but my friend these I reckon will give you a good life."

"I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end ... I have lost every friend on earth I shall have one friend left and that friend shall be down inside me."

"Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech."

"Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?"

"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth."
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