Abraham Lincoln said "All the trouble and convulsion has proceeded from efforts to spread it over more territory." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordSeptember 15, 1858

All the trouble and convulsion has proceeded from efforts to spread it over more territory.

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Republican · Illinois

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In a debate with Stephen Douglas, Lincoln asserted that the expansion of slavery was the root cause of national agitation.

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