"Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.
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“To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.”
“The world has never had a good definitionof the word liberty”
“Politics, as a trade, finds most and leaves nearly all dishonest.”
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“I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.”
“Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.”
“Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.”
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“We need laws written by people who have confronted life in the real world, not in the sheltered world of trust fund recipients of the insulated cocoon of academia.”
“There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.”
“No morn ever dawned more favorable than ours did; and no day was every more clouded than the present! Wisdom, and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm.”