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- The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . . . no insincerity…
- Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers…
- [America's] glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto…
- The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.
- To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the…
- Is it not that in the chain of human events, the birthday of a nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it…
- Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.
- Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of veneration for our…
- Human life, from the cradle to the grave, is a school. At every period of his existence man wants a teacher. His pilgrimage upon earth…
- The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life…
- And may that Being who is supreme over all, the Patron of order, the Fountain of justice, and the Protector, in all ages of the…
- The attainment of knowledge is the high and exclusive attribute of man, among the numberless myriads of animated beings, inhabitants of the terrestrial globe. On…
- The imagination of a eunuch dwells more and longer upon the material of love than that of man or woman ... supplying, so far as…
- Death fixes forever the relation existing between the departed spirit and the survivors upon earth.
- So far as the object of taxation is to raise a revenue for discharging the debts and defraying the expenses of the community, its operation…
- There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have heretofore…
- Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union... A dissolution, at least temporary, of the Union, as now constituted, would now…
- The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community ... that in the operation of human institutions upon social…
- The barbarian chieftain, who defended his country against the Roman invasion, driven to the remotest extremity of Britain, and stimulating his followers to battle, by…
- Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers…
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