I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
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If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
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Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.
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If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what you will, is the great high-road to his reason. . .
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded.
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