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I Believe This Government Cannot Endure Permanently Half Slave And Half Free.
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I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
-- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
-- Speech, June 16, 1858
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You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master.
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In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free,--honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.
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I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races - that I am no
or ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people...
We cannot be free men if this is, by our national crisis, to be a land of slavery.
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That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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