Abraham Lincoln's Cooper Union Address
A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, "Stand and deliver, or I shall kill
you, and then you will be a murderer!"To be sure, what the robber demanded of me - my money - was my own; and I had a clear right to keep it; but it was no more my own than my vote is my own; and the threat of death to me, to extort my money, and the threat of destruction to the Union, to extort my vote, can scarcely be distinguished in principle.
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