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"The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want on one.
We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.
With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with other the same word may mean for some men to do as the please with other men and the product of other men's labor.
Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name-liberty.
And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by the two different and incompatible names-liberty and tyranny."
Speech, Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Maryland,
April 18, 1864