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Four score 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. | ??? | | 74.8% | Our popular Government has often been called an experiment.... One [point] still remains--its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it. | ??? | | 67.1% | ...I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams. | ??? | | 66.3% | I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot. | ??? | | 65.5% | Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. | ??? | | 62.9% | Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue. | ??? | | 61.9% | We regard every man...an enemy to the institutions of the South, who does not boldly declare that he believes African slavery to be a social, moral, and political blessing. | ??? | | 59.3% | We believe...in obedience to, and respect for the judicial department of government.... But we think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. | ??? | | 59.3% | The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty.... We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. | ??? | | 58.3% | I thought 'Dixie' one of the best tunes I ever heard... I had heard our adversaries over the way had attempted to appropriate it. I insisted yesterday that we fairly captured it... | ??? | | 57.2% |
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We recognize...the inferiority stamped upon that race of men by the Creator, and from the cradle to the grave, our Government, as a civil institution, marks that inferiority. | ??? | | 51.3% | If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory. | ??? | | 49.6% | A government, to afford the needful protection and exercise proper care for the welfare of a people, must have homogeneity in its constituents. | ??? | | 48.2% | The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form. | ??? | | 47.7% | Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar. | ??? | | 44.9% | Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. | ??? | | 43.2% | I will admit no bond that holds me to a party a day longer than I agree to its principles. | ??? | | 41.4% | What security have you if every man...can find in his own heart a higher law than that which is the rule of society, the Constitution, and the Bible? | ??? | | 41.3% | Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent, the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice and sustained by a virtuous people. | ??? | | 41.2% | Peace is the interest, the policy, the nature of a popular Government. War may bring benefits to a few, but privation and loss are the lot of the many. | ??? | | 36.6% |
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