Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Slavery Quotes, Soil Quotes

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.

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Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

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When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.

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The weak have no place here, in this life or any other life. Weakness leads to slavery. Weakness leads to all kinds of misery, physical and mental. Weakness is death.

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War is horrible, but slavery is worse.

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

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The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

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Oh Man, Man. How despicable in slavery, how great when fired with the love of freedom!

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We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued.

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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.

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The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

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Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]

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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.

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Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.

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The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.

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What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?

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Base is the slave that pays.

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In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in the making the bondage of the negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, and sneered at, and construed, and hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

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Better to starve free than be a fat slave

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I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.

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