My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pl…

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My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me. ✨ Address on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, delivered 16 October 1854, Peoria, Illinois
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My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me. ✨ Address on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, delivered 16 October 1854, Peoria, Illinois

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