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- Nov 07, 2020
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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected.
- Much
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.
- Nov 07, 2020
There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous.
- Charter
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- Nov 07, 2020
To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020