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Disunion And Civil War Are At Hand; And Yet I Fear Disunion And War Less Than Compromise. We Can Recover From Them. The Free States Alone, If We Must Go On Alone, Will Make A Glorious Nation.

The Unrestricted Competition So Commonly Advocated Does Not Leave Us The Survival Of The Fittest. The Unscrupulous Succeed Best In Accumulating Wealth.

Nothing Brings Out The Lower Traits Of Human Nature Like Office-seeking. Men Of Good Character And Impulses Are Betrayed By It Into All Sorts Of Meanness.

The Melancholy Thing In Our Public Life Is The Insane Desire To Get Higher.

Law Without Education Is A Dead Letter. With Education The Needed Law Follows Without Effort And, Of Course, With Power To Execute Itself; Indeed, It Seems To Execute Itself.