Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
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I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down...
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How many legs does a dog have, if you call his tail a leg The answer is four, because calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend it'.
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Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.
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