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1 " Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space. "
― Abraham Lincoln , Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln
2 " I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. "
3 " I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. "
4 " I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined. "
5 " I will not say that we may not sooner or later be compelled to meet force by force; but the time has not yet come, and if we are true to ourselves, may never come. Do not mistake that the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Therefore let the legions of slavery use bullets; but let us wait patiently till November, and fire ballots at them in return; and by that peaceful policy, I believe we shall ultimately win. "
6 " let every man remember that to violate the law is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the charter of his own and his children's liberty. "
7 " being used now, in order to force slavery on to Kansas; for it cannot be done in any other way. [Sensation.] The "
8 " Advancement—improvement in condition—is the order of things in a society of equals. "
