A Quote by John George Nicolay
It is therefore not to be wondered at that Lincoln's single term in the House of Representatives at Washington added practically nothing to his reputation.
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It is therefore not to be wondered at that Lincolns single term in the House of Representatives at Washington added practically nothing to his reputation.
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I was elected by the good people of Fort George for another five-year term, and I certainly intend to continue serving them in this, my seventh term as a member of the House of Representatives.
We don't want Washington Democrats running the House of Representatives.
I don't think anyone is closer to the voters in Washington than members of the House of Representatives.
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Nothing happens here in this building, in the House of Representatives, if there's no demand from outside the Capitol.
For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since he whom I loved, as if he should never die, was dead; and I wondered yet more that myself, who was to him a second self, could live, he being dead. Well said one of his friend, "Thou half of my soul"; for I felt that my soul and his soul were "one soul in two bodies": and therefore was my life a horror to me, because I would not live halved. And therefore perchance I feared to die, lest he whom I had much loved should die wholly.
And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless.
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