But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only good thing which no man ever seeks the good of, for himself.
Abraham LincolnBoth 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.
Abraham LincolnI hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.
Abraham Lincoln