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"Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers."
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"The root system supports the branches."
"It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling."
"Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken."
"What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation."
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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."
"We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be."
"Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, cannot bear; and that every attempt to restrain it is a palpable wrong on God and man."
"I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families."
"The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected."
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