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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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Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils.…
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While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason,…
— Ethan Allen
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Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting about it.…
— Richard Dawkins
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Ruth and I are happily incompatible.
— Billy Graham
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Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.
— Vera Brittain
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Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony
— John Stott
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It's good to be incompatible with your partner sometimes. It causes your souls to stretch & grow - the point of a…
— Judith Orloff
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Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions.
— Robert Breault
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Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most…
— Thomas Jefferson
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...the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity-that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan,…
— Jacques Monod
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Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace.
— Ludwig von Mises
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Honesty is incompatible with amassing a large fortune.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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