Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature -- opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow. - Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln: "Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature -- opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow."

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Antagonism	Brings	Brought	Ceaselessly
Collision	Convulsions	Eternal	Extension
Fiercely	Follow	Founded	Into
Justice	Love	Mans	Must
Nature	Opposition	Principles	Selfishness
Shocks	Slavery	Them	These
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