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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible. Woodrow Wilson

Government Great Men Own Group States Willful Rendered Contemptible Opinion Representing Little Helpless United United States

Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling. Woodrow Wilson

Man Every Carefully See Give He Takes Him Office Whether Either Swelling Who Washington Growing Grows Watch Every Man

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe. Zachary Taylor

Foe Would Would-Be Magnanimity Towards Judicious Act

If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail. Ulysses S. Grant

War Obedience Will Men Rules Fail Make Slavish

I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life. Abraham Lincoln

Life Humble Walks Born Remained Most Ever

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary. Abraham Lincoln

Victory Give Only Bullets Ballots Bloody Peaceful Right Necessary

Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation. Abraham Lincoln

Soil Face Every Other Equal Globe Spot Cultivation Fertility Same Which Illinois Actual Sufficiently Amount Level Extent

I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began. Abraham Lincoln

Old Think Introduction Hated About New Until New Era Always Era Line Been Began Quiet Any Much Bill Nebraska Slavery

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. Abraham Lincoln

Hope Best Freedom Free Giving Lose Assure Honorable Earth Alike Give Shall Nobly Last Slave Preserve Save

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life. Abraham Lincoln

Life Great Out Folly Attempt Piece Make Anything Early Early Life

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us. Abraham Lincoln

Government History Liberty Political System Ourselves Tells Find Religious Civil Religious Liberty More Institutions Political Institutions Times Than Any Essentially The History Of Ends Which Former Us

When 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. Abraham Lincoln

Time Myself Man Thinking Spend Say One-Third About My Time He Him Ready Am Getting Going Reason Two-Thirds

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say. Abraham Lincoln

Parents Virginia Say Born Both Perhaps Were Families Should Second

The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none. Andrew Jackson

Government Business Legal Own Duty Other Pursuits Exclusive Protecting Well None Leave Branches Commerce Privileges Capital Credit

War is a blessing compared with national degradation. Andrew Jackson

War Blessing National Degradation Compared

Elevate those guns a little lower. Andrew Jackson

Those Guns Little Lower Elevate

Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you but my friends never leave me. Andrew Jackson

Me You Van Never Leave Leaving Friends May Your

Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support. Andrew Jackson

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