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An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.

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Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away.

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I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

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Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object

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While we are grateful to all the brave men and officers for the events of the past few days, we should, above all, be very grateful to Almighty God, who gives us victory.

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Remembering that Peter denied his Lord with an oath, after most solemnly protesting that he never would, I will not swear I will make no committals; but I do think I will not.

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I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day.

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I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.

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Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.

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I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am.

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If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.

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One is a majority if he is right.

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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 to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.

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Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert? I think that in such a cse to silence the agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional but withal a great mercy.

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Received as I am by the members of a legislature the majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments, I trust that I may have their assistance in piloting the ship of state through this voyage, surrounded by perils as it is; for if it should suffer wreck now, there will be no pilot ever needed for another voyage.

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Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.

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I walk slowly, but never backwards.

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I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

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If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up.

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Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

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