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Abraham Lincoln Quotations on "Slavery"
- The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves. - Letter to George Robertson
- You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it. - Letter to Joshua Speed
- The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes. - Letter to Joshua Speed
- I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved -- I do not expect the house to fall -- but I do expect it will cease to be divided. - House Divided Speech
- I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist. - Speech at Chicago
- Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil... - Debate at Galesburg, Illinois
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