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- Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than…
- Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of…
- One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to…
- One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves…
- The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call…
- Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the…
- There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be…
- There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true…
- I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful…
- I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution…
- I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this…
- So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written…
- If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year…
- Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food…
- Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other…
- A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
- Our adversaries [ the Confederate States of America ] have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one penned by Jefferson,…
- Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people back into the…
- The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another mans right of property. Republicans, on…
- The President to-night has a dream:He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment…
- In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You…
- One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.
- As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from…
- To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is…
- It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to mean no more…
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