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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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648 |
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AUTHOR:
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Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) |
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QUOTATION:
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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. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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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). |
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SUBJECTS:
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Freedom |
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