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The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.
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The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.
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I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ…
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It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and…
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There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had…
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I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish…
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Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.
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There is a higher law than the Constitution.
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We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can…
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It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South.
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The constitution regulates our stewardship; the constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defense, to welfare, and to liberty. But…
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But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same…
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
— Aristophanes
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A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to…
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We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?
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The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the…
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Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.
— Tony Campolo
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Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would…
— Charles Darwin
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In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished…
— Carl Sagan
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War cannot be humanized. It can only be abolished.
— Albert Einstein
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When fortune has been abolished, when every profession is open to everyone, an ambitious man may think it is easy to launch…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Charity should be abolished; and be replaced by justice.
— Norman Bethune
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The People's Liberation Army is always a fighting force. Even after countrywide victory, our army will remain a fighting force during the…
— Mao Zedong
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Happiness is yours in the here and now. The painful states of anxiety and loneliness are abolished permanently. Financial affairs are not…
— Vernon Howard
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