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The Autocrat of all the Russia...

The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.

Abraham Lincoln 1446 quotes

You know I dislike slavery; an...

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

Abraham Lincoln 1446 quotes

The slave-breeders and slave-t...

The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes.

Abraham Lincoln 1446 quotes

I have always hated slavery, I...

I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.

Abraham Lincoln 1446 quotes

Now I confess myself as belong...

Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil...

Abraham Lincoln 1446 quotes

He [Stephen Douglas] is blowin...

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 he is penetrating, so far as lies in his power, the human soul, and eradicating the light of reason and the love of liberty, when he is in every possible way preparing the public mind, by his vast influence, for making the institution of slavery perpetual and national.

Abraham Lincoln 1446 quotes

When Judge Douglas says that w...

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 nothing wrong in the institution; but if you admit that it is wrong, he cannot logically say that anybody has a right to do wrong.

Abraham Lincoln 1446 quotes

This is a world of compensatio...

This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.

Abraham Lincoln 1446 quotes

Now what is Judge Douglas Popu...

Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of another man, neither that other man nor anybody else has a right to object.

Abraham Lincoln 1446 quotes

An inspection of the Constitut...

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

Abraham Lincoln 1446 quotes

We believe that the spreading ...

We believe that the spreading out and perpetuity of the institution of slavery impairs the general welfare. We believe - nay, we know, that that is the only thing that has ever threatened the perpetuity of the Union itself.

Abraham Lincoln 1446 quotes

Let there be no compromise on ...

Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done again.

Abraham Lincoln 1446 quotes

You think slavery is right and...

You think slavery is right and ought to be extended; while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.

Abraham Lincoln 1446 quotes

I say now, however, as I have ...

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 national auspices, - I am inflexible. I am for no compromise which assists or permits the extension of the institution on soil owned by the nation.

Abraham Lincoln 1446 quotes

One section of our country bel...

One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.

Abraham Lincoln 1446 quotes

I am naturally anti-slavery. I...

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling.

Abraham Lincoln 1446 quotes

One eighth of the whole popula...

One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.

Abraham Lincoln 1446 quotes

Military glory-that attractive...

Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy...

Abraham Lincoln 1446 quotes

Every man is said to have his ...

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

Abraham Lincoln 1446 quotes

Do not destroy that immortal e...

Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.

Abraham Lincoln 1446 quotes

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