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... THINGS WHOLLY EVIL The true rule , in determining to embrace or reject anything is not whether it have any evil in it , but whether it have more of evil than of good . There are few things wholly evil or wholly good.- Speech on Internal ...
... THINGS WHOLLY EVIL The true rule , in determining to embrace or reject anything is not whether it have any evil in it , but whether it have more of evil than of good . There are few things wholly evil or wholly good.- Speech on Internal ...
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... thing , and conceals it , is a traitor to his country's interest . Letter to Robert Allen , June 21 , 1836 , vol . I , p . 15 . TRUTH AND PRUDENCE I never encourage deceit , and falsehood , especially if you have got a bad memory , is ...
... thing , and conceals it , is a traitor to his country's interest . Letter to Robert Allen , June 21 , 1836 , vol . I , p . 15 . TRUTH AND PRUDENCE I never encourage deceit , and falsehood , especially if you have got a bad memory , is ...
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... things in a society of equals . on Slavery , July 1 , 1854 , vol . II , p . 185 . CURSE OF THE SHIFTED BURDEN As labor is the common burden of our race , so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of ...
... things in a society of equals . on Slavery , July 1 , 1854 , vol . II , p . 185 . CURSE OF THE SHIFTED BURDEN As labor is the common burden of our race , so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of ...
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... things are produced by labor , it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labor has produced them . But it has so happened , in all ages of the world , that some have labored , and others have without labor enjoyed a ...
... things are produced by labor , it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labor has produced them . But it has so happened , in all ages of the world , that some have labored , and others have without labor enjoyed a ...
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... THING BE PRESSED Gen. Sheridan says " If the thing be pressed I think that Lee will surrender . " Let the thing be pressed . -Telegram to Gen. Grant , Apr. 7 , 1865 , vol . XI , p . 77 : FLOURISHING ON THE SKEWHORN PRINCIPLE Doubtless a ...
... THING BE PRESSED Gen. Sheridan says " If the thing be pressed I think that Lee will surrender . " Let the thing be pressed . -Telegram to Gen. Grant , Apr. 7 , 1865 , vol . XI , p . 77 : FLOURISHING ON THE SKEWHORN PRINCIPLE Doubtless a ...
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Page 28 - Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began, by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.
Page 3 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's. assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Page 47 - I cannot but know what you all know, that, without a name, perhaps without a reason why I should have a name, there has fallen upon me a task such as did not rest even upon the Father of his country...
Page 39 - Now, I protest against the counterfeit logic which concludes that because I do not want a black woman for a slave, I must necessarily want her for a wife. I need not have her for either. I can just leave her alone.
Page 46 - Cass went in advance of me in picking whortleberries, I guess I surpassed him in charges upon the wild onions. If he saw any live fighting Indians, it was more than I did, but I had a good many bloody struggles with the mosquitoes; and although I never fainted from loss of blood, I can truly say I was often very hungry.
Page 12 - In one word, I would not take any risk of being entangled upon the river, like an ox jumped half over a fence and liable to be torn by dogs front and rear without a fair chance to gore one way or kick the other.
Page 47 - ... to the rule of three. If a straggler supposed to understand Latin happened to sojourn in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizard. There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education. Of course, when I came of age I did not know much. Still, somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the rule of three, but that was all.
Page 41 - The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty, especially as the sheep was a black one. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of the word