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Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Government
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Nov 07, 2020

I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

May
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Nov 07, 2020

As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men.

Man
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Nov 07, 2020

But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.

Great
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Nov 07, 2020

But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.

Cannot
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Nov 07, 2020

But, although America cannot be justly charged with violating the rights of Turkey, Turkey nevertheless can be justly charged with violating the rights of America.

God
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Nov 07, 2020

God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.

Comparatively
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Nov 07, 2020

I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.

Government
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Nov 07, 2020

I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

Object
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Nov 07, 2020

I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals.

Need
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Nov 07, 2020

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.

God
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Nov 07, 2020

I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.

Nov 07, 2020

I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.

Nov 07, 2020

I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.

Influence
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Nov 07, 2020

It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.

Men
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Nov 07, 2020

It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary.

Nov 07, 2020

It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it.

Free
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Nov 07, 2020

Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.

Man
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Nov 07, 2020

Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, cannot bear; and that every attempt to restrain it is a palpable wrong on God and man.

Grace
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Nov 07, 2020

My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.

Our
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Nov 07, 2020

Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.

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