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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 1704
AUTHOR: Abraham Lincoln (1809–65)
QUOTATION: Whenever [I] hear any one, arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
ATTRIBUTION: President ABRAHAM LINCOLN, speech to 140th Indiana regiment, March 17, 1865.—The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler, vol. 8, p. 361 (1953).
SUBJECTS: Slavery
 


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