00:00No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
00:07Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
00:16Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
00:29If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
00:40You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
00:49Important principles may then must be inflexible.
00:59I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
01:09Everybody likes a compliment.
01:15A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
01:22Never regret what you don't write.
01:29There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
01:36Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail. Without it nothing can succeed.
01:47The things I want to know are in books, my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I intrigued.
01:57Let's have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
02:07Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
02:17With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
02:27Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
02:37A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit.
02:42Let him attempt to force the process, then he may spoil both fruit and tree.
02:47But let him patiently wait, then the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.
02:53If we could first know where we are, then whether we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
03:03There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, truth is the daughter of time.
03:13I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.
03:23Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.
03:33Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl, we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
03:45All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth, our own excepted, in their military chest, with a bunopad for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years.
04:02I am rather inclined to silence.
04:09No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
04:17With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
04:32Ballots are the I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
04:42It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance.
04:50This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.
04:57Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.
05:15As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
05:20If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.
05:30Forescore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
05:42Everyone desires to live long, but no one would be old.
05:48I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman's skillet and the man's axe helve.
06:00When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say, and two thirds about him and what he is going to say.
06:12The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
06:22I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life.
06:29Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
06:39Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
06:49In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
06:59The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
07:20It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.
07:29The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
07:40I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.
07:50I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly unless they have a motive to do otherwise.
08:00I have great respect for the semicolon, for it is a mighty handy little fellow.
08:10If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
08:20I believe this government cannot endure permanently a half-slave and half-free.
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