How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.

One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.

It is not 'Is God on my side', but 'Am I on God's side'.

I hold the value of life is to improve one's condition. Whatever is calculated to advance the condition of the honest, struggling laboring man, so far as my judgment will enable me to judge of a correct thing, I am for that thing.

We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.

But for that Book, we could not know right from wrong.