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We must become free. We are free; the work is to know it. We must give up all slavery, all bondage of whatever kind. We must not only give up our bondage to earth and everything and everybody on earth, but also to all ideas of heaven and happiness.

A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

I reminded myself that the best way to win was to not need to win. The best performances are accomplished when you are relaxed and free of doubt.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.

I believe the Declaration that 'all men are created equal' is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.

I wish all men to be free.

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union ... If I could save the Union without freeing any slave... if I could save it by freeing all the slaves... I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.