"Whenever [I] hear any one, arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."
— Slavery

January 1, 1970

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President Abraham Lincoln, speech to 140th Indiana regiment, March 17, 1865; in Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (1953), vol. 8, p. 361