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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… — Abraham Lincoln
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… — Abraham Lincoln
If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature. — Abraham Lincoln
The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point. — Abraham Lincoln
Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the first only is… — Abraham Lincoln
I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not… — Abraham Lincoln
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… — Abraham Lincoln
I have always felt it was a handicap for oppressed peoples to depend so largely upon a leader, because unfortunately in our culture, the charismatic… — Ella Baker
Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own right, shall receive… — George Washington
In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in… — Abraham Lincoln
The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon us, till custom and use… — George Washington
The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . . . no insincerity… — John Quincy Adams
While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum, or in disputes about Hebrew… — Benjamin Rush
The minds of youth are perpetually led to the history of Greece and Rime or to Great Britain; Boys are constantly repeating the declamations of… — Noah Webster
Such is my veneration for every religion that reveals the attributes of the Deity, or a future state of rewards and punishments, that I had… — Benjamin Rush
By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances. — Aberjhani
Atheism is based upon a materialist philosophy, which holds that nothing exists but natural phenomena. There are no supernatural forces or entities, nor can there… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis his honesty that… — Benjamin Franklin
The first and last lesson of religion is, 'The things that are seen are temporal; the things that are not seen are eternal.' It puts… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself; who frowns upon… — Mark Twain
[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion. — Bertrand Russell
Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and… — Bertrand Russell
If the resurrection of Jesus cannot be believed except by assenting to the fantastic descriptions included in the Gospels, then Christianity is doomed. For that… — John Shelby Spong
It is our wisest and our safest course to stand at the farthest distance from sin; not to go near the house of the harlot,… — Thomas Brooks
Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our thinking faculties when… — James Clerk Maxwell

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