Abraham Lincoln Selfishness Quotations

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.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature-oppositi on to it is in his love of justice.

I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of God I shall continue to do so.