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In my view of the present aspect of affairs,
there is no need of bloodshed and war.
There is no necessity for it.
I am not in favor of such a course,
and I may say in advance,
there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government.
The government will not use force unless force is used against it.
The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim
their fugitives I have constantly admitted.
The legal right of Congress to interfere with
their institution in the states,
I have constantly denied.
Some single mind must be master,
else there will be no agreement in anything.
The point the power to hurt
of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
I should like to know if,
taking this old Declaration of Independence,
which declares that all men are equal upon principle,
you begin making exceptions to it,
where will you stop?
If one man says it does not mean a Negro,
why not another say it does not mean some other man?
I perhaps ought to say that individually
I never was much interested in the Texas question.
I never could see much good to come of annexation,
inasmuch as they were already
a free republican people on our own model.
Concede that the new government of Louisiana
is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl;
we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg
than by smashing it.
No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion
can be permanently maintained.
He who molds the public sentiment...
makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
I am rather inclined to silence.
It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws,
but to break up both and make new ones.
As our case is new,
we must think and act anew.
I have talked with great men,
and I do not see how they differ from others.
I never went to school more than six months in my life,
but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections,
I remember how,
when a mere child,
I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me
in a way I could not understand.
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain
that this nation, under God,
shall have a new birth of freedom
and that government of the people,
by the people, for the people,
shall not perish from the earth.
A man watches his pear tree day after day,
impatient for the ripening of the fruit.
Let him attempt to force the process,
and he may spoil both fruit and tree.
But let him patiently wait,
and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.
I think that slavery is wrong, morally,
socially and politically.
I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States,
and I should not object if it should gradually
terminate in the whole Union.
Biographies,
as generally written,
are not only misleading but false...
In most instances,
they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought
forth on this continent, a new nation,
conceived in Liberty,
and dedicated to the proposition that
all men are created equal.
If I were to try to read,
much less answer,
all the attacks made on me,
this shop might as well be closed for any other business.