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It is the eternal struggle between these two principles — right and wrong — throughout the world.
Lincoln–Douglas debates (1858)
It is the same spirit that says, "You toil and work and earn bread, and I'll eat it."
Lincoln–Douglas debates (1858)
With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. Consequently he who moulds public sentiment, goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. He makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to be executed.
Lincoln–Douglas debates (1858)
Has it not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death?
Lincoln–Douglas debates (1858)
No matter in what shape it comes, whether from the mouth of a king who seeks to bestride the people of his own nation and live by the fruit of their labor, or from one race of men as an apology for enslaving another race, it is the same tyrannical principle.
Lincoln–Douglas debates (1858)
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.
Lincoln–Douglas debates (1858)
That is the electric cord in that Declaration that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty-loving men together, that will link those patriotic hearts as long as the love of freedom exists in the minds of men throughout the world.
Lincoln–Douglas debates (1858)