Famous Quotes | Slavery is founded on the...
Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man’s nature—opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
- Abraham Lincoln
Attribution: Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), U.S. president. comment, Oct. 16, 1854, Peoria, Ill., During a debate with Stephen Douglas.
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