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Quotes from Allow the humblest man an equal chance — Abraham Lincoln

1809–1865 United States

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Their thinking it right, and our thinking it wrong, is the precise fact upon which depends the whole controversy.

Allow the humblest man an equal chance (1860)

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

Allow the humblest man an equal chance (1860)

Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.

Allow the humblest man an equal chance (1860)

Look at the magnitude of this subject!

Allow the humblest man an equal chance (1860)

You say that you think slavery is wrong, but you denounce all attempts to restrain it. Is there anything else that you think wrong, that you are not willing to deal with as a wrong? Why are you so careful, so tender of this one wrong and no other?

Allow the humblest man an equal chance (1860)

In all matters but this of Slavery the framers of the Constitution used the very clearest, shortest, and most direct language. But the Constitution alludes to Slavery three times without mentioning it once! The language used becomes ambiguous, roundabout, and mystical.

Allow the humblest man an equal chance (1860)

It is easy to demonstrate that "our Fathers, who framed this government under which we live," looked on Slavery as wrong, and so framed it and everything about it as to square with the idea that it was wrong, so far as the necessities arising from its existence permitted.

Allow the humblest man an equal chance (1860)

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