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“I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.”

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I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

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As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.

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Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember

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With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.

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I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.

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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…

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I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the…

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If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

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We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

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In every man's mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low, as to make him…

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The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give…

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