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Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.
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But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.
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But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also…
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It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial…
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I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.
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Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by…
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There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous.
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There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the…
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We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may…
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True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.
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When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be…
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I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
— Francis Bacon
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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die.
— Nelson Mandela
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When a man but half forgives his enemy, it is like leaving a bag of rusty nails to interpose between them.
— Hugh Latimer
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Whoever commits a crime strengthens his enemy.
— Daniel O'Connell
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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
— Tertullian
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Of old the expert in battle would first make himself invincible and then wait for his enemy to expose his vulnerability.
— Sun Tzu
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Why are we proud? We are proud, first of all, because from the beginning of this Nation, a man can walk upright,…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for…
— George F. Kennan
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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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You got to have an enemy to fight. And when you have an enemy to fight, then you can unite the entire…
— Glenn Beck
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It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
— Gautama Buddha
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