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Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

I have sworn eternal opposition to slavery, and by the blessing of God, I will never go back.

Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

While we see the course of the final abolition of human slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all justifiable means in our power, we must leave the progress as well as the result in his hands who sees the end; who chooses to work by slow influences; & with whom two thousand years are but as a single day.

God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.