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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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