"I am a little uneasy about the..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.
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“In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.”
“I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election; but if they do, the true [cure] is in the next election, and not in the treachery of the person elected.”
“There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.”
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“When we decided to take up arms, it was because the only other choice was to surrender and to submit to slavery.”
“The Grecians and Romans were strongly possessed of the spirit of liberty but not the principle, for at the time they were determined not to be slaves themselves, they employed their power to enslave the rest of mankind.”
“The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied.”
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“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”
“The slow-rising central horror of "Watergate" is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something from it.”
“My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs).”