Only events and not a man's exertions in his own behalf, can make a President.
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I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal.
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I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
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The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise high with the occasion
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No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
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