“This is a world of compensation; and he would be no slave must consent to have no slaves. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.”

—  Abraham Lincoln

Source: 1850s, Letter to Henry L. Pierce (1859), p. 377

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