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

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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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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 service of sin is perfect slavery.

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

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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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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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War is horrible, but slavery is worse.

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

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Base is the slave that pays.

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Insofar as we may at all claim that slavery has been abolished today, we owe its abolition to the practical consequences of science

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

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

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