copy of the speech that levi P morton gave for the statue of liberty?
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'This is the result of the devoted enthusiasm, the intelligence and the noblest sentiments which can inspire man. It is great in its conception, great in its execution, great in its proportions; let us hope that it will add, by its moral value, to the memories and sympathies that it is intended to perpetuate. We now transfer to you, Mr. Minister, this great statue and trust that it may forever stand the pledge of friendship between France and the Great Republic of the United States.'
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Context as follows: giving up liberty only gives you tyranny it doesn't give you safety.  Benjamin Franklin and his fellow British citizens gave up their liberty to a king so that he would protect them but he really only repressed them, thus the revolution was born.
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The phrase comes from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
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Here is a Statue of Liberty facts page:\n\nhttp://www.endex.com/gf/buildings/liberty/libertyfacts.htm\n\nThe text of the sonnet by Emma Lazarus is near the bottom of the page, along with a picture of the bronze plaque itself.
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here you go:\nhttp://www.constitutioncenter.org/PressRoom/ImageDownloadCenter/index.shtml\n You can download a text version of it or images of the whole original!
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-------"If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made not for the public good so much as for the selfish or local purposes:----------Noah Webster\n\n\n-------"Corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizens will be violated or disregarded.-----------------------Noah Webster\n\n\n-------"If a republican government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws."-------------Noah Webster\n\nI Guess The Guy KNEW What He Was Talkin About, Because It Has Become APPARENT That We Have CORRUPT Men In Office, Our PUBLIC REVENUES Are Being Squandered, And The RIGHTS Of Our CITIZENS Are Being VIOLATED
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Hi there,\n\nhere you go:  http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/adlaistevenson.html
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This is actually from the Declaration of Independence...\n"...life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Thomas Jefferson, who wrote it, had not quite determined whether or not the colonists had a natural right to property. But he did have great conviction that the British, or any government for that matter, could not impede their God-given right to live out their lives without tyrannical, micromanaging elitists controling every aspect of life.
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Benjamin Franklin:\n\n"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."\n\nIt's one of my all-time favorite quotes!\n\n.
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Lincolns Gettysburg address.
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Barbara Jordan. The entire text of the speech is at the following website
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They have a website, but the archives don't seem to have that name in them.  You could try searching the site for others relevant words or call/e-mail the newspaper for the copy.  The local library should also have it, but you'd have to make a photocopy.
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As an African American, I'd like to quote an ex-slave named Frederick Douglass.  He made a speech which in part said:\n\n"What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sound of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanks-givings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy -- a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour."
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I'm pretty sure that debates weren't broadcasted in those days.  Do mean current LD debates from modern forensics or a reprint of the transcript of the presidential debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas that took place in 1858?  If you mean these debates, look at my reference.  It is very good.  If you are asking about Lincoln-Douglas debating in forensics (speech team stuff) then look at the other site.
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Abraham Lincoln, "Second Inaugural Address," 4 March 1865\n\n\nFellow-Countrymen:\n\nAt this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement somewhat in detail of a course to be pursued seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented. The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.\n\nOn the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, urgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war--seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came.\n\nOne-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union even by war, while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh." If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."\n\nWith malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting
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Here:\n\nhttp://www.bernardsboe.com/Cedar-Hill/Linked_pages/grade4/warquotes.htm
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Thomas Jefferson said:\n\nTimid men prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty\n\nI would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it\n\nThose who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one