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The Negative Principle That No Law Is Free Law, Is Not Much Known Except Among Lawyers.

Twenty-two Years Ago Judge [then-senator Stephen] Douglas And I First Became Acquainted. We Were Both Young Then; He A Trifle Younger Than I. Even Then, We Were Both Ambitious; I, Perhaps, Quite As Much So As He. With Me, The Race Of Ambition Has Been A Failure--a Flat Failure; With Him It Has Been One Of Splendid Success.

We Here Highly Resolve That These Dead Shall Not Have Died In Vain.

It Has Been My Experience That Folks Who Have No Vices Have Very Few Virtues.

My Great Concern Is Not Whether You Have Failed, But Whether You Are Content With Your Failure.