 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.  The Works of Charles Sumner - Page 388by Charles Sumner - 1874Full view - About this book
 | Moorfield Storey - 1903 - 72 pages
...will fall in pieces through mere incompetence for its duties/ 1 Or, as-Lincoln more briefly taught,— ''Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not...themselves, and under a just God cannot long retain it." An American may well pause at the threshold of the argument, and ask himself what has happened to his... | |
 | William E. Adams - 1903 - 388 pages
...not because it is labour, but because it also is tyranny. But Abraham Lincoln was right : — " Men who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and under a just God cannot long retain it." The laws of the workshop sometimes help to make the worker's life a burden. They do so, I think (for... | |
 | Charles Edward Merriam - 1903 - 392 pages
...of compensation," said Lincoln, "and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. They who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves, and under a just God cannot long retain it." Thus Lincoln not only maintained that this nation could not permanently endure half slave and half... | |
 | Robert Dickinson Sheppard - 1903 - 198 pages
...creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature. All honor to Jefferson — to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by V i;o ABRAHAM LINCOLN. a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1905 - 350 pages
...II. — 1 8. But we cannot be free men if this is, by our national choice, to be a land of slavery. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves ; and, under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it. [Loud applause.] Did you ever, my friends, seriously... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1906 - 650 pages
...must repulse them, or they will subjugate us. This is a world of compensation; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who...God, cannot long retain it. All honor to Jefferson — to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people,... | |
 | 1906 - 336 pages
...care whether a wrong is voted up or voted down. This is a world of compensation ; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who...themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. Taking slaves into new Territories, and buying slaves in Africa, are identical things, identical rights... | |
 | John George Nicolay - 1906 - 612 pages
...'they wnTs'ub Jugate us. This is a w"6rI3"^f "compensation ; /*• and"fie"wtlo"w'ould be no slave"must consent to have no slave! Those who deny freedom to others deserve it noYfor therflselVe1^2frd7"undef a just God, cannot long retain it." / Douglas's quarrel with the Buchanan... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 336 pages
...must repulse them, or they will subjugate us. This is a world of compensation ; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who...God, cannot long retain it. All honor to Jefferson — to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 404 pages
...must repulse them, or they will subjugate us. This is a world of compensation; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who...God, cannot long retain it. All honor to Jefferson — to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people,... | |
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