Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
648
AUTHOR:
Abraham Lincoln (1809–65)
QUOTATION:
This is a world of compensation; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
ATTRIBUTION:
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to H. L. Pierce and others, April 6, 1859.—The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler, vol. 3, p. 375 (1953).
