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"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough."
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"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none."
"Any negotiation has a limit. Otherwise, war is irrelevant."
"But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American's word reliable these days?"
"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."
"The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible."
"I'm busy, you're busy, everybody's busy. I've got a lot I want to say to you, though. 'All right, Pia told her. 'Hit me with it. 'First, I'm so sorry about what my uncle Urien did to you guys. I hate him, he killed my family, and we're going to cut off his head, and then I have to be Queen, but before that happens let's do lunch, okay?"
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"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."
"It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity."
"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."
"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."
"Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in."
"Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it, 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read, 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty-to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy."
"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world."
"I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up."
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