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Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the government, nor of dungeons to ourselves.
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If the minority will not acquiesce, the majority must, or the Government must cease.
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On the question of liberty, as a principle, we are not what we have been.
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Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature,--opposition to it in his love of justice.
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This declared indifference, but, as I must think, real, covert zeal, for the spread of slavery, I cannot but hate.
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What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
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When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government,--that is despotism.