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If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature. — Abraham Lincoln

We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued. — Abraham Lincoln

For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds. — Honore De Balzac

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel. — Abraham Lincoln

The View of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and the ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be. — Norman Rockwell

Slavery in New Hampshire was never legally abolished, unless Abraham Lincoln did it. The State itself has not ever pronounced any emancipation edict. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. — Abraham Lincoln

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. — Abraham Lincoln

This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. — Abraham Lincoln

My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery. — Abraham Lincoln

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself. — Abraham Lincoln

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay. — Abraham Lincoln

One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended. — Abraham Lincoln

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

Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us. — Abraham Lincoln

I long ago gave up defending humanity. It's beyond me on most days to defend myself. — Lionel Shriver

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. — Abraham Lincoln

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves — Abraham Lincoln

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

There is none deceived but he that trusts. — Benjamin Franklin

Just once I'd like someone to call me 'Sir' without adding 'You're making a scene.' — Homer

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

I'll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness. — Frances Mayes

The simplest explanation usually sounds right and is far
more convincing than any complicated explanation could
hope to be. — Scott Adams

I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war. — Abraham Lincoln

I was lucky enough to come in at the beginning of the independent film movement and its really shaped my life and career. — Julianne Moore

Climate change is analogous to Lincoln and slavery or Churchill and Nazism: it's not the kind of thing where you can compromise. — James Hansen

An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it. — Abraham Lincoln

On January 9, 1863, nine days after Lincoln ended slavery by signing the Emancipation Proclamation, — Doug Most

Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time. — Bill Walton

Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil ... — Abraham Lincoln

Being used now, in order to force slavery on to Kansas; for it cannot be done in any other way. [Sensation.] The — Abraham Lincoln

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

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

Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done again. — Abraham Lincoln

I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring. — Abraham Lincoln

If I'd known I was about to meet the man who'd shatter me like bone china on terra-cotta, I would have slept in. Instead, — Martha Hall Kelly

I think if we ever encountered aliens, even communicating with them would be really, really difficult. — David S.Goyer

Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system. — Dan Harmon

Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope. — Abraham Lincoln