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- He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that…
- Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best…
- 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.…
- The President responded very impressively, saying that he was deeply sensible of his need of Divine assistance. He had sometime thought that perhaps he might…
- And while it has not pleased the Almighty to bless us with a return of peace, we can but press on, guided by the best…
- The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.
- In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free.…
- 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…
- Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil, having due regard…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books,…
- Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.
- 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…
- 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…
- I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer…
- I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the…
- If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and struggle for office,…
- I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do or not do any particular thing, He finds a way of letting me know…
- This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.
- The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
- The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
- The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
- I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.
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