Posted by
RightTeacher on Tuesday, November 04, 2008 8:49:16 AM
Second Innaugural:
It may seem strange that any men should
dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from
the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we
be not judged.
October 15, 1858 Debate at Alton:
It is the eternal struggle between these two principles -- right and wrong --
throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to
face from the beginning of time, and will ever continue to struggle. The one
is the common right of humanity and the other the divine right of kings.
It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself. It is the
same spirit that says, 'You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.'
No matter in what shape it comes, whether from the mouth of a king who seeks
to bestride the people of his own nation and live by the fruit of their
labor, or from one race of men as an apology for enslaving another race,
it is the same tyrannical principle.