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The ballot is stronger than bullets.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

I therefore shared fully the intense chagrin of the New York and other State delegations when, on the third ballot, Abraham Lincoln received a larger vote than Seward.

If ballots won't work, bullets will.

I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today.

You cannot run faster than a bullet.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

But having said all of that, that still doesn't account for a lot of the increase in popularity which stems, I think, from Lincoln's personal characteristics.

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.