Vulgar words in Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865 (Page 1)

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I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason-I can never be satisfied with any one who would be blockhead enough to have me.

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But slavery will endure no test of reason or logic; and yet its advocates, like Douglas, use a sort of bastard logic, or noisy assumption, it might better be termed, like the above, in order to prepare the mind for the gradual, but none the less certain, encroachments of the Moloch of slavery upon, the fair domain of freedom.

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And if you can do this in free Kansas, and it is allowed to stand, the next thing you will see is ship-loads of negroes from Africa at the wharf at Charleston; for one thing is as truly lawful as the other; and these are the bastard notions we have got to stamp out, else they will stamp us out.

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