I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world—enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites—causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity.

Abraham Lincoln

On slavery.

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Slavery

Speaker

Abraham Lincoln

Source

The Repeal of the Missouri Compromise and the Property of its Restoration

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1854 1850s 19th century

Occupation

American President National leader Politician

From

United States

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Original Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "The Repeal of the Missouri Compromise and the Property of its Restoration: Speech in Reply to Senator Douglas." 16 Oct. 1854, Peoria, IL, USA.

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act at Peoria, Illinois, October 16, 1854." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

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I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

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Medium
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Time
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Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: Self-published, 1855, poem 1.

Current Citation

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Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.

Thomas Jefferson

Notes on the State of Virginia

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Thomas Jefferson
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Genre
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Language
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Time
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Era
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Original Citation

Jefferson, Thomas [published anonymously]. Notes on the State of Virginia. Paris: Philippe Denis Pierres, 1785, query 18.

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If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.

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Genre
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Language
English
Time
1857 1850s 19th century
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Douglass, Frederick. "West India Emancipation." 3 Aug. 1857, Canandaigua, NY, USA.