The worst thing you can do for anyone you care about is anything that they can do on their own.
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.
Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.