The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand.
From Abraham Lincoln
To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life.
I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.
Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'
Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
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