“Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
