"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it."
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"Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."
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"I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal."
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"I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day."
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"I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot."
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"Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."
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"The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me."
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"Stand with anybody that stands RIGHT. Stand with him while he is right and PART with him when he goes wrong."