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I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.

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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

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My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing ...more

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If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might in a moral point of view ju...more

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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.

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The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both *may* be, and one *must* be, wrong. God ...more

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Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves

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The democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing when in conflict with another man's right of property...This is a world o...more