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"True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased."
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"In quietness we find inner peace."
"The sea may catch fire, the planets may collide in space, the sun may quench off its heat, but what we understand is that our peace is like a river in our souls; it's surface may wave about in turbulence, but it's bottom is cool and gently calm!"
"It is our responsibility to pray for a peaceful world."
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"It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it."
"Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers."
"I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government."
"But, although America cannot be justly charged with violating the rights of Turkey, Turkey nevertheless can be justly charged with violating the rights of America."
"There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor."
"The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash."
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