As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.
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A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.Abraham Lincoln
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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is the tree is the real thing.
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