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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 there is a…

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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.
The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.
I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ…
It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and…
There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had…
I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish…
Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.
There is a higher law than the Constitution.
We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can…
It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South.
The constitution regulates our stewardship; the constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defense, to welfare, and to liberty. But…
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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Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in… — Chanakya
Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under my notice.… — Arthur Conan Doyle
We know that priorities are amiss in the world when a man gets a military medal of honor for killing another man… — Charlotte Bunch
EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the head. It is sometimes accompanied by a copious… — Ambrose Bierce
In this modern world plagued with counterfeits for the Lord's plan, we must not be misled into supposing that we can discharge… — Marion G. Romney
[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with… — H. L. Mencken
In the discharge of this trust I will only say that I have, with good intentions, contributed toward the organization and administration… — George Washington
Here lies a man who was given a medal for killing two men, and a dishonorable discharge for loving one. — Unknown Author
Girl who sit on Judge's lap get honorable discharge. — Confucius
I can now state that I have succeeded in operating a motive device by means of [cosmic rays]. I will tell you… — Nikola Tesla
If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they… — Mahatma Gandhi
I discharge every person under punishment or prosecution under the Sedition Law, because I considered, and now consider, that law to be… — Thomas Jefferson

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