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- When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical if there is…
- I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under…
- The good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly applicable to human affairs, and in this as in other things, we may say…
- We must remember that the people of all the States are entitled to all the privileges and immunities of the citizen of the several States.…
- I am very glad indeed to see you to-night, and yet I will not say I thank you for this call, but I do most…
- It is for us and our time...to say the right makes might.
- 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…
- What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading…
- I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and perhaps the best…
- I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed…
- The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors…
- When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor…
- Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode is very simple,…
- It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim,…
- I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality…
- You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.
- You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you; but, no matter. Fight you, then exclusively…
- The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us…
- My God! My God! What will the country say?
- Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her
- I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps I should say.…
- If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'.
- Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are,…
- A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first…
- I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed.
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- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
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