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Quotes from Speech at Peoria, Illinois — Abraham Lincoln

1809–1865 United States

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Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature — opposition to it, in his love of justice.

Speech at Peoria, Illinois (1854)

Is there no danger to liberty itself, in discarding the earliest practice, and first precept of our ancient faith?

Speech at Peoria, Illinois (1854)

Stand with anybody that stands RIGHT. Stand with him while he is right and PART with him when he goes wrong.

Speech at Peoria, Illinois (1854)

God made man and placed good and evil before him, allowing him to choose for himself, being responsible for the choice he should make.

Speech at Peoria, Illinois (1854)

When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact.

Speech at Peoria, Illinois (1854)

Now the relation of master and slave is pro tanto a total violation of this principle.

Speech at Peoria, Illinois (1854)

The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers.

Speech at Peoria, Illinois (1854)

I insist, that if there is ANY THING which it is the duty of the WHOLE PEOPLE to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity, of their own liberties, and institutions.

Speech at Peoria, Illinois (1854)

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.

Speech at Peoria, Illinois (1854)

God did not place good and evil before man, telling him to make his choice. On the contrary, he did tell him there was one tree, of the fruit of which, he should not eat, upon pain of certain death.

Speech at Peoria, Illinois (1854)

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