The study of tools as well as of books should have a place in the public schools. Tools, machinery, and the implements of the farm should be m...
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I find that with me low spirits and feeble health come and go together. The last two or three months I have had frequent attacks of the blues....
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I too mean to be out of politics. The ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment gives me the boon of equality before the law, terminates my enli...
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The Southern States are uneasy at the prospect of [Abraham] Lincoln's election today. The ultra South threatens disunion, and it now looks as ...
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Our wedding day, twenty years ago! A happy day. Darling is handsomer than she was then, with a glorious flow of friendly feeling and cheerfuln...
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Have been reading 'Genesis' several Sundays, not as a Christian reads for 'spiritual consolation,' 'instruction,' etc., not as an infidel read...
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Anti-Nebraska, Know-Nothings, and general disgust with the powers that be, have carried this county [Hamilton County, Ohio] by between seven a...
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If the Union is now dissolved it does not prove that the experiment of popular government is a failure.... But the experiment of uniting free ...
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General education is the best preventive of the evils now most dreaded. In the civilized countries of the world, the question is how to distri...
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While your rheumatism stays with you I naturally feel anxious to hear often. If you should be so unlucky as to become a cripple, it will certa...
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Almost two months married.... A better wife I never hoped to have.... She bears with my 'innocent peculiarities' so kindly, so lovingly.... Le...
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Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.
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The gloomy theology of the orthodox—the Calvinists—I do not, I cannot believe. Many of the notions—nay, most of the notions—which orth...
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It seems to me that the most important thing in Texas, as everywhere else, is education for all. I, of course, don't believe in forcing whites...
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I shall not be surprised if Colonel [John Charles] Fremont receives less than one hundred electoral votes. But, after all, the good cause has ...
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A few ideas seem to be agreed upon. Help none but those who help themselves. Educate only at schools which provide in some form for industrial...
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Conviction.
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Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; ind...
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I must resist it [a rider on an appropriation bill] to the last extremity. I say, first, I object to the repeal of important legislation desig...
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The real grounds of difference upon important political questions no longer correspond with party lines.... Politics is no longer the topic of...
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My hobby more and more is likely to be common school education, or universal education.
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The Senate and House in the Forty-sixth Congress being both Democratic will insist on the right to repeal the election laws [enforcing the Fou...
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We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, ...
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I am happy to be through with the war.
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The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so by night I am ready for bed instead of soirees.
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Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free s...
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How easily I could now let go of life!
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The religion of the Bible is the best in the world. I see the infinite value of religion. Let it be always encouraged. A world of superstition...
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Fanny was not there! How she would have enjoyed the scene.... I could not but think of her, and in spite of my efforts to prevent, the unbidde...
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As friends go it is less important to live.
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