On the recordOctober 16, 1854
I object to it as a dangerous dalliance for free people--a sad evidence that, feeling over-prosperity, we forget right; that liberty as a principle we have ceased to revere.
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Speaking against the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Lincoln warned that national prosperity could lead a free people to abandon fundamental principles of liberty and justice.
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