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True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.
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Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.
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I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals.
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I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.
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There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous.
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My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.
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I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.
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I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.
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The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected.
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I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.
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Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, cannot bear; and that every attempt to restrain it is a palpable wrong on God and man.
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Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.
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Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.
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As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men.
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