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...it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.

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No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him, his secretaries, have written that he was deeply hurt by what was said about him and drawn about him, but on the other hand, Lincoln had the great strength of character never to display it, always able to stand tall and strong and firm no matter how harsh or unfair the criticism might be. These elements of greatness, of course, inspire us all today.

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Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it.

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We had parties that Nero would have been ashamed to attend

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More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to utter hopelessness and despair, the other to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

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If you take a dog which is starving and feed him and make him prosperous, that dog will not bite you. This is the primary difference between a dog and a man.

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Genius is of no country.

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Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

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Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope.

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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animals.

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