I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under the national auspices, - I am inflexible. I am for no compromise which assists or permits the extension of the institution on soil owned by the nation.
Abraham LincolnA man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.
Abraham LincolnI go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.
Abraham LincolnI think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question (slavery). They have constantly brought forward small cures for great sores-plasters too small to cover the wound. That is one reason that all settlements have proved so temporary-so evanescent.
Abraham Lincoln