As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued. The slaves were undeniably a element of strength to those who had their service, and we must decide whether that element should be with us or against us. Emancipation, will strike at the heart of the rebellion. <br/><br/>Said to Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles.
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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
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I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others. When I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
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I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
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If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.
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Wherever slavery is, it has been first introduced without law. The oldest laws we find concerning it, are not laws introducing it; but regulating it, as an already existing thing.
Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.
