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Date Quote Topics Share
Date10/16/1854 Quote Stand on middle ground and hold the ship level and steady. TopicsTopics: Politics
Date10/16/1854 Quote According to our ancient faith, the just powers of government are derived from the consent of the governed. TopicsTopics: Freedom, Religion
Date10/16/1854 QuoteStand with anybody that stands RIGHT. Stand with him while he is right and PART with him when he goes wrong. TopicsTopics: Politics, Morality, Famous
Date10/16/1854 QuoteSlavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is [in] his love of justice. TopicsTopics: Slavery, Morality
Date10/16/1854 QuoteA universal feeling, whether well or ill-founded, can not be safely ignored. TopicsTopics: Freedom, Politics
Date11/25/1854 QuoteI hereby decline to accept the office of Representative in the General Assembly, for the said county of Sangamon, to which office I am reported to have been elected on the 7th. of Novr. Inst. TopicsTopics: Politics
Date11/27/1854 QuoteIt has come round that a whig may, by possibility, be elected to the U.S. Senate; and I want the chance of being the man. TopicsTopics: Politics
Date12/15/1854 QuoteWe shall have a terrible struggle with our adversaries. They are desperate, and bent on desperate deeds. TopicsTopics: Politics
Date12/19/1854 QuoteAs a Senator, I should claim no right, as I should feel no inclination, to give the central portion of the state any preference over the North, or any other portion of it. TopicsTopics: Politics
Date02/09/1855 QuoteHis defeat now gives me more pleasure than my own gives me pain. TopicsTopics: Politics

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