Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Be A Slave
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This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.
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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 insist that they found the institution of slavery existing here. They did not make it so, but they left it so because they knew of no way to get rid of it at that time.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.
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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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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand.
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I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.
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While I have often said that all men out to be free, yet I would allow those colored persons to be slaves who want to be; and next to them those white persons who argue in favor of making other people slaves. I am in favor of giving an opportunity to such white men to try it on for themselves.
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What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.
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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.
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If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
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If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others
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Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.
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I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.
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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
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I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world.
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If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.
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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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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
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Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
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Abraham Lincoln
- Born: February 12, 1809
- Died: April 15, 1865
- Occupation: 16th U.S. President
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