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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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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
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No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.
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Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity…
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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It must be a peace without victory...Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It…
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