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A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

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Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.

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No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

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Peace will come soon to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure their cases and pay the costs.

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I have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me.

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Care for him who shall have borne the battle

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The foregoing history may not be precisely accurate in every particular; but I am sure it is sufficiently so, for all the uses I shall attempt to make of it, and in it, we have before us, the chief material enabling us to correctly judge whether the repeal of the Missouri Compromise is right or wrong.

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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 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.

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We cannot escape history.

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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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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.

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I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

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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.

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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

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As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.

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We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.

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I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

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Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.

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Senator [Stephen] Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for years past, have been looking upon him as certainly, at no distant day, to be the President of the United States. They have seen in his round, jolly, fruitful face, post offices, land offices, marshalships, and cabinet appointments, chargeships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands.

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We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.

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