It is idle to await unanimity.

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We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.

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Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.

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Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.

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Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.

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It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage.

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Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens.

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Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections.

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Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.

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The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.

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